You can easily embed Power BI reports into a Server Side Blazor Application. This method allows you to display a Power BI report without requiring the user to have a Power BI account.

Note: On 10/22/2021 this tutorial was updated to use the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) rather than the deprecated Authentication Library (ADAL) See: Update your applications to use Microsoft Authentication Library and Microsoft Graph API - Microsoft Tech Community

 

Set-Up For The Application

To set up to run the sample application, we follow the directions in this article: Embed Power BI content with service principal and an application secret.

The first step is to start with a Power BI Report in https://app.powerbi.com/.

When viewing the report, you can look at the URL in the web browser to gather (and save for use in following steps):

• workspaceId
• reportId

(note: If you have issues completing the following directions, you may not have sufficient permissions)

 

Next, log into: https://portal.azure.com/ and copy the Tenant ID.

 

Now we need to create a Service Principal that will allow us to programmatically call the Power BI Embedded API.

We select App Registrations and click the link to create a New registration.

 

We create a new application.

 

Once the application (the Service Principal), is created, we select it, then click on the Overview tab and copy and save the ClientID.

 

Next, we click the Certificates & secrets tab and click the link to create a New client secret.

 

We create a client secret.

 

After it is created, we click the copy button to copy and save the ClientSecret.

 

Next, select Groups, then New Group.

 

Create a new Security Group.

Add the Service Principal you just created.

 

Click the Create button to save the group.

Next, to allow this Service Principal to access the Power BI Reports, we follow the directions here: Service principal API access….

 

On https://app.powerbi.com/ log into the Admin portal.

 

In Tenant settings, enable the option to Allow Service Principals to use Power BI APIs.

 

Select the Workspace that has your Power BI Paginated Report, and select Workspace access.

 

Add the Security Group (created earlier) to the Workspace.

 

Create The Project

The first step is to create a Server Side Blazor project and select Manage NuGet Packages.

Install the Microsoft.Identity.Client and Microsoft.PowerBI.Api packages.

 

The next step is to add the powerbi.min.js file to the wwwroot/js directory.

You can get that file from here: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerBI-JavaScript/releases

 

Next open the _Host.cshtml file.

 

Add the following code to reference the powerbi.min.js file:

 

<script src="js/powerbi.min.js"></script>

 

Add the following code to display the Power BI Report using the code in the powerbi.min.js file:

 

    <script>
        window.ShowMyPowerBI = {
            showReport: function (reportContainer, accessToken, embedUrl, embedReportId) {
                // Get models. models contains enums that can be used.
                var models = window['powerbi-client'].models;
                var config = {
                    type: 'report',
                    tokenType: models.TokenType.Embed,
                    accessToken: accessToken,
                    embedUrl: embedUrl,
                    id: embedReportId,
                    permissions: models.Permissions.All,
                    settings: {
                        filterPaneEnabled: true,
                        navContentPaneEnabled: true
                    }
                };
                // Embed the report and display it within the div container.
                powerbi.embed(reportContainer, config);
            },
        };
    </script>

 

 

So that our C# code can communicate with the JavaScript, create a interop.cs file using the following code:

 

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components;
using Microsoft.JSInterop;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace BlazorPowerBI
{
    public static class Interop
    {
        internal static ValueTask<object> CreateReport(
            IJSRuntime jsRuntime,
            ElementReference reportContainer,
            string accessToken,
            string embedUrl,
            string embedReportId)
        {
            return jsRuntime.InvokeAsync<object>(
                "ShowMyPowerBI.showReport",
                reportContainer, accessToken, embedUrl,
                embedReportId);
        }   
    }
}

 

Finally, create a PowerBI.razor page using the following code:

 

@page "/PowerBI"
@using System.Net.Http
@using System.Threading.Tasks
@using Microsoft.Identity.Client
@using Microsoft.PowerBI.Api
@using Microsoft.PowerBI.Api.Models
@using Microsoft.Rest
@using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq
@using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration
@inject IJSRuntime JSRuntime
@inject IConfiguration _configuration
<h3>PowerBI Embedded</h3>
<div @ref="@PowerBIElement" style="width:100%;height:600px;max-width: 2000px" />
@code {
    private ElementReference PowerBIElement;
    string TenantID = "{{ Your TenantID }}";
    string ClientID = "{{ Your ClientID }}";
    string ClientSecret = "{{ Your ClientSecret }}";
    string workspaceId = "{{ Your workspaceId }}";
    string reportId = "{{ Your reportId }}";
    protected override async Task
    OnAfterRenderAsync(bool firstRender)
    {
        if (firstRender)
        {
            var result = new PowerBIEmbedConfig();
            // Authenticate using created credentials
            AuthenticationResult authenticationResult = null;
            authenticationResult = await DoAuthentication();
            var tokenCredentials =
                new TokenCredentials(authenticationResult.AccessToken, "Bearer");
            using (var client = new PowerBIClient(
                new Uri("https://api.powerbi.com/"), tokenCredentials))
            {
                var report = 
                    await client.Reports.GetReportInGroupAsync(
                        new Guid(workspaceId), 
                        new Guid(reportId));
                var generateTokenRequestParameters = 
                    new GenerateTokenRequest(accessLevel: "view");
                var tokenResponse = 
                    await client.Reports.GenerateTokenAsync(
                        new Guid(workspaceId), 
                        new Guid(reportId), 
                        generateTokenRequestParameters);
                result.EmbedToken = tokenResponse;
                result.EmbedUrl = report.EmbedUrl;
                result.Id = report.Id.ToString();
                await Interop.CreateReport(
                    JSRuntime,
                    PowerBIElement,
                    tokenResponse.Token,
                    report.EmbedUrl,
                    report.Id.ToString());
            }
        }
    }
    private const string AuthorityFormat = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/{0}/v2.0";
    private const string MSGraphScope = "https://analysis.windows.net/powerbi/api/.default";
    private async Task<AuthenticationResult> DoAuthentication()
    {
        IConfidentialClientApplication daemonClient;
        daemonClient = ConfidentialClientApplicationBuilder.Create(ClientID)
            .WithAuthority(string.Format(AuthorityFormat, TenantID))
            .WithClientSecret(ClientSecret)
            .Build();
        AuthenticationResult authResult =
            await daemonClient.AcquireTokenForClient(new[] { MSGraphScope }).ExecuteAsync();
        return authResult;
    }
}

 

 

Links

Blazor Power BI Paginated Reports

Create View and Edit Power BI Reports In Blazor

 

Download

The project is available on the Downloads page on this site.

You must have Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.3 (or higher) installed to run the code.