Is there any way to speed up the Add Reference dialog? For example, has anyone found any way to open it by default in the Recent or Browse tabs (which is what I use 90% of the time), to avoid the other tabs' slowness?
All I have found is this blog post where a lot of people complain about this issue, but no solutions...
Note that this is not a duplicate of 8440 as this is not a general question.
I'm not sure that this is possible, or that it's going to get fixed by Microsoft - see this item on Microsoft Connect ...
No, I don't believe there is a good way to speed it up.
However, you can try a plug-in that does similar a thing but faster:
Try tweaking your virus checker.
I keep my virus checker (Nod32) set to scan on write, create, execute but not "file read". My whole machine is about 3 times faster, and "add reference" takes under 3 seconds. If I have my virus checker scanning reads it takes about 15 seconds to load add reference!!! Of course this introduces a small amount of risk, but for me the performance improvements far outweigh the risks.
I replaced my HD with an SSD. Now opening the Add References dialog takes about 2 seconds when I open it the first time, less than a second after that. That alone was worth the money.
Hi All ,
The fastest way of adding a reference is to use the following visual studio extensions
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/36a6eb45-a7b1-47c3-9e85-09f0aef6e879
Enjoy,
Muse VSExtensions