Preparing your environment
To prepare your environment, you must download and install two software components:
- Visual Studio Code
- Power Query software development kit (SDK)
In addition, the custom connector example covered in this chapter connects to Discord, a popular voice and instant messaging social platform. We will use the Discord API to connect to a Discord server and retrieve information. To use Discord, we will also want to install and configure two additional components, namely:
- Internet Information Services
- Discord
Let’s look at how to get these software components installed and configured.
Getting Visual Studio Code
There are currently two versions of Power Query: a version released in 2017 that works as an extension for Visual Studio 2017 and 2019 and a new version (currently in preview on the publication date for this book) that works with Visual Studio Code.
For this book, we will be working with...