The DAX Editor is an extension to Visual Studio 2012, 2013, and 2015, which makes it easier to work with DAX with a Microsoft Analysis Services Tabular project.

It includes:

• DAX Syntax Highlighting
• DAX Formatting
• Textual representation of measures defined in a Tabular project
• Extracting/importing measures from/to a Tabular model file (.BIM)

DAX Editor is free and open source. Documentation, feedback and beta at https://github.com/DaxEditor/DaxEditor.

Version history: https://github.com/DaxEditor/DaxEditor/wiki/Version-history

Edit measures in tabular models

1. Create a tabular model. Save the BIM file.
2. From the Model menu, select Get Measures from BIM file. This opens a .dax file
3. Edit measures in the .dax file.
4. To save your new or modified measures to the .bim file
   (WARNING: measures missing in DAX file will be removed!):
   --> Close the .bim file.
   --> Click the DAX file to activate.
   --> Select DAX->Save Measures to BIM file.
   --> Reload the BIM file. New measures appear in the far left corner of the measure grid.
5. To get measures from the BIM file to the DAX file:
   --> Save the .bim file.
   --> Select DAX->Get Measures from BIM file. The contents of the DAX file are overwritten with the measures from the BIM file.