I've about had it with this dialog:


WHY does it take so long for this dialog to come up?  Does it have to scan the entire GAC first?  Maybe so, but that's no excuse for the eternity that I get no response from visual studio after selecting "Add Reference".  I can think of two solutions to this problem off the top of my head:

1. Select the projects tab by default - surely it doesn't take multiple seconds to scan the solution for other projects
2. Threading - You gave us the BackgroundWorker class in 2005 - please use it.

You would think that a little more time would have been put into a dialog that is so commonly used in development.  At least it's resizable in 2005.  Maybe in Visual Studio Orcas it will open in less than 10 seconds.