title: Best way to create SPSS data connector for PowerBI
body: <p>I never wrote a PowerBI data connector before just read a few articles and watched one video.</p>
  <p>I want to convert a binary SPSS file (<a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp-dev/html_node/System-File-Format.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp-dev/html_node/System-File-Format.html</a>) to data Provided to PowerBI.</p>
  <p>The M language does not seem to be very strong tool for parsing binary files.</p>
  <p>The only alternative I found so far seems to be a custom ADO.NET connector where I can use .NET code which will do the parsing easy.</p>
  <p>Any recommendations on the best approach?</p>