Running add-ins from a network location in Visual Studio 2010

When you download Tabs Studio add-ins to your computer for Visual Studio 2010 from the Internet they may end up blocked by Windows (it is not a problem for Visual Studio 2008):

Saver add-in marked as a file from another computer

Loading such add-in for VS 2010 gives the following System.NotSupportedException:

Blocked Saver add-in loading error in VS 2010

To solve this problem you can either unblock add-in dll file in Windows Explorer or add the loadFromRemoteSources element (see the MSDN reference) to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe.config":

<configuration>
   <runtime>
      <loadFromRemoteSources enabled="true"/>
   </runtime>
</configuration>

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