My Favorite Feature in VS 2010 – Add Reference
Posted by cbkadel on February 18, 2010
What’s my favorite new feature? Is it MVC 2? Is it the new flashy WPF editor? No. The feature that I love the best so far in VS 2010 [from a programmers perspective] is the simple, the boring, “Add Reference” dialog box! It loads the ‘.NET’ tab asynchronously, so it immediately loads and it immediately displays data while it’s lazy loading all the possible references. I’d say that VS 2010 is the “Windows 7” of IDEs. It really seems that the product team for Visual Studio really has managed to deliver a very polished, responsive, and frankly beautiful IDE this time. Rather than just calling it the Windows 7 of IDEs, I’d say they basically seem to have accomplished the feature ambition of Windows Vista with the polish and completeness of Windows 7.
You can read a quick post by Scott Guthrie about the Add Reference dialog here (http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/29/add-reference-dialog-improvements-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx).
