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PBI Port Wrapper v0.7.0 — Tray-first workflow

This release reworks the day-to-day workflow around the system tray and a single
Off / Forward / Serve model per Power BI Desktop instance, so keeping several
models reachable for Excel and other tools is near zero-touch.

  • Off / Forward / Serve (#47) — one per-model control. Forward gives the model
    a stable port; Serve additionally renames its database to a stable alias so the
    connection string survives Desktop restarts.
  • Auto-serve on detection — each model has an On-detection policy
    (Do nothing / Forward / Serve / Serve after grace period). "Serve after grace
    period" shows a countdown toast with an edit instead escape before it serves.
  • Tray as the primary surface — the tray menu drives everything per model:
    Off/Forward/Serve, the On-detection policy, an Allow network access toggle,
    copy connection string, plus ready / new-model toasts.
  • Auto-start with Windows (#87) — opt-in checkbox; adds an HKCU\…\Run entry,
    launches silent to the tray, and self-heals the Run key if the exe is moved.
  • Grid ↔ tray convergence (#88) — the grid is now a diagnostics/admin surface
    that projects the same state as the tray. It gained the On-detection dropdown and
    Network toggle (both sync with the tray both ways), and the separate Action and
    Serve columns became a single Action menu.

Fixed

  • Exit while serving now restores the database name (#100) — a consolidated
    serve lifecycle (one state machine + a single coordinator owning detection and
    exit) fixes the exit-while-serving DB-rename-back regression, a grace-period
    re-serve loop, and a startup UI freeze.
  • Detection under an elevated engine (#94/#95) — model names resolve by Analysis
    Services port, so detection works even when the Desktop engine runs elevated.

Known limitation

The installer and executable are not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen /
Defender warns on first run — click More info → Run anyway. See
KNOWN_LIMITATIONS.md §3 (#35).

.odc one-click Excel export (#86) is deferred to a follow-up release.

Install

  • Installer (recommended): download PBIPortWrapper.msi, run it, and launch
    from the Start Menu or the Power BI Desktop External Tools ribbon.
  • Portable ZIP: download and extract PBIPortWrapper-v0.7.0-win-x64.zip, then
    run PBIPortWrapper.exe.

Full details in CHANGELOG.md.

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