Two weeks ago, we launched the Productivity Power Tools at TechEd North America and the response has been great with over 37000 downloads so far! Many of you also may have noticed that an updated version of the Power Tools was released last week. This update fixed an issue where the extension update check would fail on machines that required proxy credentials and cause Visual Studio to crash.
One of my favorite extensions in the set has to be the new Add Reference extension because it saves me time every day. When you first open the Add Reference Dialog, you'll notice a small window that pops up to indicate that it is "Refreshing References". While this window is up, the dialog is generating a cache of your references for the current framework. It's a little slow to cache the references but once that's done, the dialog should open almost instantly. You will only see this window when a cache update is needed: when you first use a new framework, after installing a new SDK, or when you get an updated build of the Pro Power Tools.
