Programmatic Power BI Development

Overview

Power BI supports multiple approaches for creating and managing reports and semantic models through code. As of 2026, the canonical stack is:

• PBIP (Power BI Project) as the folder-based source format
• TMDL as the semantic-model format inside PBIP (see tmdl-mastery skill)
• PBIR (Power BI Enhanced Report Format) as the report format inside PBIP
• fabric-cicd (Python) or Fabric CLI fab deploy for deployment
• TOM / .NET SDK for advanced programmatic model editing
• semantic-link-labs for Python-based scripting from Fabric notebooks

Reference Map

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