Adding a tab to the “Add Reference” dialog in VS?

Question

Been working on a personal add-in for VS 2008 and have been researching automation and control. I see there are lots of examples for adding a .dll reference to the registry so they show in the ".NET" tab in the Add Reference dialog.

What I would like to do, however, is add a new tab to the reference dialog with some functionality therein. Is it possible to do this? I can't seem to find any documentation for modifying the Add Reference dialog.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I'm not sure about extending the existing dialog, but you might consider creating your own. Here is a blog post where someone created a new dialog in order to have a faster load time. You might be able to start with that code and modify as needed.