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TMDL scripts, notebooks, and Tabular Editor: tools that help you scale

Written by Kurt Buhler | May 09, 2025

In the previous article, we explained that Microsoft have released several new features to help Power BI developers to do more and enhance productivity. These tools are additions to Power BI Desktop or Fabric that help fill existing gaps in the product. You can use them with or without third party tools like Tabular Editor, which is an integrated development environment (IDE) to help you make better semantic models as effectively as possible. 

The following diagram (from the previous article) is a high-level overview of these features and tools, and how you can use them with local models (in Power BI Desktop) or remote models (in a Fabric or Power BI workspace).