Cool VS2010 Extension: “WoVS Reference Lists” (Think persistent reference lists for simple two click adding of all your common references to a Project)

Visual Studio Gallery - WoVS Reference Lists

“This idea had been on our heads for quite a while. Just to make sure it wasn’t just us who thought it was a cool idea,we posted it on the Extension Ideas forum and it rather quickly made it to the top 10.

You can go straight to the bits and/or keep reading for the details of how it works :)

It’s not uncommon to have projects that require dozens of references. It’s also fairly common that the set of references you use within a company for certain types of projects (i.e. “ASP.NET MVC App with NHibernate”) is also pretty stable and there’s usually a well-known combination of assembly references that you have to setup for each and every one you start. Ditto for “Unit Test Project” (i.e. add xUnit, Moq, etc.).

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The bits are free as in beer. You can download them from the Visual Studio Gallery or the Extension Manager within VS. They will expire on Oct. 28th at which time full public beta bits of WoVS will be available and you will need to download them again for compatibility reasons (of course, free as in beer, again).

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This is one of those “pwop” ideas (so logical in hindsight you smack your forehead, resulting in a “pwop!” sound… ;)