From the Microsoft Dynamics AX Blogs: Navigating the AX Application Explorer; AxAssist; Setting up Form Size; Roll-up 4

Navigating the AX Application Explorer in Visual Studio: From the newly launched Dynamics AX Tools blog: "You can navigate the AX Application Explorer using the keyboard just the same way you use the keyboard in the AOT... An important thing to understand about the AX Application Explorer is that it is not a superficial tool in Visual Studio. It integrates deep in the guts of Visual Studio and enables the presence of AX metadata in many of the existing Visual Studio components... Yes, that's right, you can think of it as Visual Studio itself being connected to the AX metadata repository, and the AX metadata being exposed in Visual Studio."

AxAssist - An Assistant for your X++ Editor: Dianne Siebold's WebLog likes the feature: "Anyone who works in the X++ editor knows that it is not what you might call full-featured - especially if you're used to working in Visual Studio... I recently came across a new tool called AxAssist that could really up your productivity... AxAssist is actually a collection of various editor enhancements including things like: hotkeys, an AOT toolbar, code reformatter and suggestions which are somewhat similar to IntelliSense where you type in some letters and a list of suggested variable (or table or class) names pops up."

"AxAssist supports Microsoft Dynamics AX versions 2009 and 4.0 as well as Axapta 3.0. This is a plus, because I know from talking with customers ...