Main Screen

The following image outlines the main sections of the DAX Studio user interface

  1. Ribbon Control / File Menu
  2. Metadata Panes
  3. Query Editor
  4. Output Panes
  5. Statusbar

Current feature set

Dax Studio works as both an add-in for Excel 2010/2013 and as a standalone program and provides the following functionality:

Proposed future feature set

We are always on the look out for new feature ideas. These are kept on the project’s issue list. You can vote for existing ideas/issues or add your own.


If you have issues running Dax Studio there are some logging settings that can be enabled to help diagnose the issue.

There is also a small utility called DAX Studio Checker which can help check the configuration of your machine. The links to the 3 external dependencies which Dax Studio requires are listed on the Installer page.

If you get the error “Not loaded. A runtime error occurred during the loading of the COM Add-in” for the Excel add-in you can try enabling the environment variable as detailed in these instructions to display a more detailed error message


Dax Studio is using the following open source libraries, without these it would not exist in it’s current state: