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Visual Studio

For Visual Studio 2015 and 2017, the Power Query SDK can be used to create Data Connector and M query projects, as shown in the following screenshot:

Power Query project types in Visual Studio

With a new PQ file solution and project in Visual Studio, the M queries of a Power BI dataset can be added as separate (.pq) files, as shown in the following screenshot:

Power Query project in Visual Studio 2017

Unlike the extension for Visual Studio Code, the file extension types for Power Query projects are exclusive to (.pq). Most importantly, ...

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