Add Search support for Add Reference

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:

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After installing it my Add Reference dialog now looks like this:

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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.