The neat thing about VS2010
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I love the Add Reference dialog box. Not only it launches fast compared to the Add Reference dialog box in VS2008, but it is also possible to sort on component name, version, runtime and path. Both .Net and COM reference list is populated almost instantly.
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It 'launches fast' because it shows you the dialog, then makes you wait for it to populate. I think it's slower overall, the other one just used to not show until it was ready for use. I think it needs a search, esp when the default sort is not by name and it's by something ( .NET version ? ) that causes it to seem like it's by name unless you notice that it's not scrolled far enough.
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What about the search assemblies box in the top right? Is that not a search?
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Is there anything you like about VS2010? (I'm betting it's something most of us really hate - I'd rather wait for a visible dialog to populate than wonder if it's ever going to appear...)
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I love the Add Reference dialog box. Not only it launches fast compared to the Add Reference dialog box in VS2008, but it is also possible to sort on component name, version, runtime and path. Both .Net and COM reference list is populated almost instantly.
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It 'launches fast' because it shows you the dialog, then makes you wait for it to populate. I think it's slower overall, the other one just used to not show until it was ready for use. I think it needs a search, esp when the default sort is not by name and it's by something ( .NET version ? ) that causes it to seem like it's by name unless you notice that it's not scrolled far enough.
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This[^] gives you a different view with search.
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Not only it launches fast compared to the Add Reference dialog box in VS2008,
I thought it was an utterly BS implementation, because while the dialog comes up, it's obviously running a background thread to populate it. Come on, MSFT, you could have cached the references as a background thread while I'm still futzing with creating projects, edit code, etc! The result was frustrating--I had to wait for the whole damn thing to load before I actually saw the reference I wanted. And it's utterly useless while it loads, because of course the scrollbar is changing size as more items get added and the whole damn list was bouncing around in my attempt to scroll while loading. WTF were they thinking? Marc
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I love the Add Reference dialog box. Not only it launches fast compared to the Add Reference dialog box in VS2008, but it is also possible to sort on component name, version, runtime and path. Both .Net and COM reference list is populated almost instantly.
it's better than it was - in as much as the dialog appears quick then sits there for an age while it populates. Given the majority of solutions contain only a small number of projects - and it is reasonably likely (in my experiecne) that it is a reference to one of these projects that you might be adding, wouldn't it have been nice to have the default tab be the one to show this solution's assemblies - which would populate quickly, and then load the system assemblies in a background thread? seems logical to me - AIMS? ** EDIT ** just read this at blogs.msdn.com Thanks for all of the feedback. We'll be making the change to have the Add Reference dialog default to the project tab in the next version. It should also remember which tab you last used after that first initial session.
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I love the Add Reference dialog box. Not only it launches fast compared to the Add Reference dialog box in VS2008, but it is also possible to sort on component name, version, runtime and path. Both .Net and COM reference list is populated almost instantly.
Yeah it is better than the older versions. I'm still not too sure about the speed though. :~
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Yeah it is better than the older versions. I'm still not too sure about the speed though. :~
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I love the Add Reference dialog box. Not only it launches fast compared to the Add Reference dialog box in VS2008, but it is also possible to sort on component name, version, runtime and path. Both .Net and COM reference list is populated almost instantly.
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It 'launches fast' because it shows you the dialog, then makes you wait for it to populate. I think it's slower overall, the other one just used to not show until it was ready for use. I think it needs a search, esp when the default sort is not by name and it's by something ( .NET version ? ) that causes it to seem like it's by name unless you notice that it's not scrolled far enough.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I love the Add Reference dialog box. Not only it launches fast compared to the Add Reference dialog box in VS2008, but it is also possible to sort on component name, version, runtime and path. Both .Net and COM reference list is populated almost instantly.
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There is also the point that you can switch to the appropriate tab while things are loading. I remember hitting the wrong tab before and having to wait forever until I could navigate to the correct tab. That can save a little time.
Agreed, and this is especially true if you want to add a project reference (and it's trying to load the GAC references first) when you KNOW it knows the projects. Much handier to be able to squirrel right into the tab you want ASAP.
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It 'launches fast' because it shows you the dialog, then makes you wait for it to populate. I think it's slower overall, the other one just used to not show until it was ready for use. I think it needs a search, esp when the default sort is not by name and it's by something ( .NET version ? ) that causes it to seem like it's by name unless you notice that it's not scrolled far enough.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
I don't think it's slower overall... The key is the fact that VS2010 allows you to click on the other tabs right away. For example, if you need a project reference, then it's much faster now with VS2010. Even if you need to cancel it behaves better