Over the years I have been getting increasingly frustrated with the time that the project reference dialog box takes to show up when all I want to do is add a reference to a DLL. I haven't touched COM references in years so I have no need for that tab and I very rarely use the .NET tab. Most of the time I just want to browse for a DLL and I hate waiting for the Add Reference dialog to come up.
My lack of patience prompted me to create an add-in for Visual Studio that I called Quick Reference. It has the same functionality as adding a reference to a DLL without the wait time of the built in add reference dialog box. Hopefully sometime in the future this will be added to Visual Studio or ReSharper. I created add-ins for VS 2005 and VS 2008 but you must have version 3.5 of the .NET Framework installed. If you have any problems please let me know at stevenrockarts at gmail dot com
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