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How to install Visual Studio 2010 Search References and Pro Power Tools side by side
The new Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools bring a new Add Reference dialog that completely replaces the classic one when you click the familiar Add Reference command:
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Add References with Search
If you have been using VS2010 for any significant amount of time, you surely came across the awkward, slow and hard to use Add Reference dialog. Despite some (apparent) improvements over the VS2008 behavior, in its current form it's even LESS usable than before. A brief non-exhaustive summary of the typical grief with this dialog is:
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MEF, IServiceProvider and Testing Visual Studio Extensions
In the latest and greatest version of Visual Studio, MEF plays a critical role, one that makes extending VS much more fun than it ever was.
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WCF Data Service Pipeline
For documentation purposes, I just draw the following UML sequence diagrams for the “Astoria” pipeline, using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate: