Tabular Editor
Tabular Editor is available as both a commercial offering and an open source version. The paid version offers some advanced development functionality and even dedicated support, which professional Power BI developers may find useful. The good news is that the free version contains all the useful core features at the time of writing, and it can be downloaded at the following GitHub link: https://github.com/TabularEditor/TabularEditor.
Tabular Editor is a productivity tool aimed at improving many aspects of the development experience offered by Power BI Desktop or Microsoft Visual Studio. These core features are out of scope for this book. Due to the sheer popularity of the tool with experienced BI developers, you are encouraged to learn more about Tabular Editor if you expect to build and maintain complex enterprise models over many months or even years. Please follow the product documentation to become familiar with the interface and functionality of Tabular Editor...
