- Posted by Peter Himschoot on July 11, 2010
Visual Studio 2010 now comes packed with too many assemblies. The list of assemblies to pick from in the Add Reference dialog is now a little too large for my taste. Today, while browsing around in the Visual Studio 2010 Extension Manager, I found the Search References extension:
After installing it my Add Reference dialog now looks like this:
And typing in the search box instantly filters the list of assemblies. Nice. Microsoft should have provided this out of the box! It is also a nice sample of how extensible Visual Studio is.