This is a good start but needs following improvements:
- After first installation, the Add Reference dialog took time (some 10 seconds) to show up; not the best first impressions.
- Search box appears funny (painting issues or misalignments) at 120 DPI.
- Clicking on any of the column headers (to sort) in the list view of the .NET tab causes the error, "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." After discarding the error message box, Visual Studio either shuts down abruptly or the UI is completely frozen and Visual Studio has to be restarted manually.
This is great! It's very fast and lightweight. The UI is not bloated with extraneous crap.
One minor suggestion: Ideally, I should be able to filter using multiple words. For example, if I type "data entities" it would first filter on "data" and then filter on "entities" for the remaining items.
Looks good, but unfortunately, the license doesn't:
"This software ... may cease operating after a predetermined amount of time .... We may change it for the final, commercial version. We also may not release a commercial version."
This implies that it's a time-limited demo of a commercial product, and that everyone who's downloading it is doing your pre-release testing for free. Once they've finished helping you find the bugs, they'll either have to pay for the finished product or uninstall the extension.
This license clearly contradicts the "Free" label for this extension. Is it just a standard license that you haven't read properly, or should this be labelled as "commercial"?
I've just noticed a similar item in the license agreement for Microsoft's VS2010 Pro Power Tools:
"This software is a pre-release version. It may not work the way a final version of the software will. We may change it for the final, commercial version. We also may not release a commercial version."
Hopefully this is just a poorly-worded license agreement for pre-release software, and not an indication that it's really a time-limited demo. Is anyone from Clarius able to confirm this conclusion?
Hi Richard,
I work at Clarius.
The Search References extension from Clarius is free and will always remain free. Hope this clears out any doubts.
Thanks,
-V.
