Followers of the IHttpHandler

World of VS has just released the “Quick Add Reference” extension which should save you time and give you a much more nicer experience when coding with VS.

When you use VS to initially create a project based on any of the several templates available like Class Library, WPF Application, Web Application, Office Addin and the list goes on, you already get some of the basic ‘must have’ references for your project automatically added thanks to the templating mechanism, i.e. you get PresentationCore.dll et friends added to your project every time you create a WPF-based project.

You may have already heard of the recently WoVS extension “Default Browser Switcher” (download from Visual Studio Gallery or from Extension Manager inside VS) that helps in choosing what browser you want to launch from VS while debugging your ASP.NET applications.

We released WoVS last friday around mid-day. Since then, that is, only two days later, its Community section has received 36 different ideas for new VS features and improvements to existing ones. THIS IS JUST AMAZING!

Adds a "Search" textbox to the lovely "Add Reference" dialog allowing you to quickly find the assemblies you're looking for.
Search for references, save time!

 A Cyber Monday Sale deal from Clarius:

If you are playing with the just released Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 you can’t miss the Regex Editor extension which provides syntax coloring, IntelliSense, support for testing the expression as you write it and support for saving it for reuse from another project. It does also include a built-in list of common expressions ready for use.

Just in case you missed the news, the ASP.NET MVC team is using T4 to generate code (yeah!)
The way they have integrated T4 in their own product is not what we would have expected (they wrote their own T4 host) so we took our Visual T4 Editor and Visual T4 Code Generator bits and added them knowledge about this custom host in order to offer the best possible tooling experience.