7 months after the first official release of Fabric Studio, I am very happy to share the I just released the next major version with a lot of new features that make working with Microsoft Fabric from VSCode better and more intuitive than ever! The release includes some new capabilities that I wanted to get into the tool since the very beginning but back then the APIs just weren’t there yet. Finally they are and I integrated them into Fabric Studio v2.0!
The most important new features of v2.0 are listed below:
- Autocomplete/Intellisense for API Notebooks
- Full integration of the Folder APIs
- Live-Editing of all Item Types that support the Item Definition APIs
- Download as Power BI Project (PBIP) for reports and semantic models
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You can find a full list of changes in the CHANGELOG.
Autocomplete/Intellisense for all API calls
This has been on my list like forever as I had already implemented something similar for my Power BI Studio VSCode extension and its probably one of the features I use the most myself. It allows you to get a list of available API calls while you are typing in a Fabric API Notebook including examples with parameters from the official documentation.
As you can see, there is huge potential for this as you can now find all necessary information when calling not so common APIs directly in VSCode by simply typing! You dont need to go to the documentation anymore which greatly increases your productivity when working whit the Fabric REST APIs.
Further I added flags for API calls. As of today only the tag
-H is supported which additionally display the headers returned by the initial API call which can be very useful for Long Running Operations (LRO)
Full integration of the Folder APIs
While viewing the folders defined in the Fabric Web UI has been added to Fabric Studio already some time ago, there are some significant additions with v2.0. Most of them are about newly added Drag&Drop capabilities for Folders as well as Items. You can now drag an item or folder and drop it on a folder or a workspace and the item/folder will be moved to that folder/(root of the)workspace.
Besides the Drag&Drop feature Fabric Studio now also supports CRUD operations including Create, Rename or Delete of Fabric Workspace folders.
Live-Editing of Item Definitions
Fabric Studio now allows you to view and edit definitions for all Item Types that support the Item Definition APIs. This list is constantly growing and I will continue supporting also newer item types. In addition, the definition now also shows up in the Treeview and can be browsed from there.
Download as Power BI Project (PBIP)
Besides the already mentioned features there are many smaller improvements and bugfixes that make Fabric Studio an even better companion for your day-to-day work with Fabric from VSCode.
Fabric Studio remains an open source project driven by the community. It can only get better by involvement of the community either by adding new feature requests, creating bugs or actually contributing to the tool itself!
VSCode Marketplace: Fabric Studio
Github Repository: github.com/gbrueckl/FabricStudio
About the Author
Gerhard Brueckl
Gerhard has been implementing traditional BI and data warehouse solutions based on the Microsoft Data Platform for over 15 years and has been sharing his knowledge with the community ever since. With the rise of “Big Data” over the last years he also shifted his interests towards new technologies, mainly related to the Hadoop eco system to fight the masses of data he frequently encounters at his customers. Having this strong background with the Microsoft Data Platform, he always tries to combine this “old” and the “new” world which still have a lot of things in common!
Reference:
Brueckl, G (2025). Release of Fabric Studio v2.0. Available at: Release of Fabric Studio v2.0 – Gerhard Brueckl on BI & Data [Accessed: 20th July 2025].
