My new favorite Visual Studio extension!

Adding GAC references to a Visual Studio project sucks. Why? Because for every reference you add, you have to open the "Add Reference" box, wait 10-20 seconds for it to load the list, find your reference in the list, and click OK. It doesn't cache the list, and it doesn't sort it either (although it does remember your sort preference - if I sort the list A to Z and add a reference, then reopen the Add Reference dialog, the list is unsorted. However, if I then click to sort the list again, the list will be sorted Z to A. Genius! Oh wait...).

When you have to update multiple references in multiple projects, this quickly becomes an aggravating, time consuming process. But no longer! After years of silent suffering, I looked for and found an awesome fix: an VS extension called Muse.VSExtensions (http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/36a6eb45-a7b1-47c3-9e85-09f0aef6e879/). This extension adds it own dialog for adding GAC references. The references are cached, easily searchable, and can be refreshed with a simple button press.

I only wish I'd found this sooner. Now, back to updating references.