15 Visual Studio Project Templates To Jump. Visual Studio 2015. Something I missed until looking these templates up: Microsoft is creating. Visual Studio 2015 Visual C++ IDE and Development Tools. IDE and Development Tools Visual C++ Tools and Templates in Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2010; Visual. M.Lansdaal 4-Apr-06 10:23 4-Apr-06 10:23 At the start of your article, you stated 'I have found little information about this issue.' Having seen articles similar to yours in the past, I did a quick search (just in CodeProject) and can report that this has been written about many times (could probably get a separate sub-topic just on Wizards/Templates). Creating a custom Visual Studio project template that you can use from the ‘New Project’ dialogue is a great way to reduce the amount of repetitive code you have to write. It gets you running through the jungle with the leaves brushing against your face, instead of sitting at the starting block wondering where your shoes are. The is a great place to share your custom Visual Studio project template with the community. There are actually two ways to create a template. I recently had to create one for and found it less than simple. This post talks you through creating one and submitting it to the Visual Studio Gallery, allowing anyone to use it from the ‘New Project’ dialogue. The.zip file output as part of the Visual Studio Export Template wizard. This is a super easy process and you should really consider creating your own templates if you find yourself making the same old changes to every project you are creating. The downside is that its not very customizable and these types of project templates cannot be submitted to the. The gallery website only supports project templates created using the VSIX package. Creating a VSIX package is a pretty involved process and will take a couple of hours. Export Template Wizard Extension Visual Studio extension claims to support exporting your projects into VSIX packages using a simple wizard interface. Unfortunately, this tool is only available for Visual Studio 2010 and the Microsoft developers of the extension seem to have stopped further development. This is a real shame. Here we have an excellent tool which the community really needs. A tool that makes creating a VSIX project template package, a matter of a few clicks. This should be built into Visual Studio out of the box! SideWaffle Project Templates There is even an alternative method of creating project templates and sharing them with the community that I should mention. It’s called (I like the name for some reason). It makes it slightly easier to create a template but its still not as simple as a few clicks. It’s certainly something worth taking a look at though. Creating a VSIX Package The first step is to create a.zip project template package using the steps above. Once you’ve done that, download and install the. This will give you new project templates to create VSIX packages. The first thing to do is create a new C# Project Template (Or a Visual Basic one if you prefer). The category a VSIX C# project is displayed under, in the Visual Studio New Project dialogue. An example of the.vstemplate file for the project can be found. An extract of that file is shown below. Note, that I’ve set the project template name, description and the default name of the project which is shown in the ‘New Project’ dialogue and the user can rename. The XML then goes on to declare the name of the.csproj file in the ‘Project’ node, followed by each and every file and folder to be included in the template. Note, that the AssemblyInfo.cs file is a little special. There are two of them in the project. The one we are interested in was already located in the root of the project when we created it. We also need to add it to the XML below slightly differently than the other files (See below). You can use the ‘OpenInWebBrowser’ or ‘OpenInEditor’ attributes on a ‘ProjectItem’ to get the file to be opened in a web browser or text editor when the project is first created. I’ve used ‘OpenInWebBrowser’ to open the ReadMe.html file containing basic information about the project, when the project is first created. ASP.NET MVC Boilerplate A professional ASP.NET MVC template for building secure, fast, robust and adaptable web applications or sites. It provides the minimum amount of code required on top of the default MVC template provided by Microsoft. Find out more at RehanSaeed.com MvcBoilerplateTemplate.ico CSharp 4.5 1000 f2d50b53-cff3-41b4-8481-dac14c18ea48 true WebProject true AssemblyInfo.cs BundleConfig.cs FilterConfig.cs RouteConfig.cs Startup.Container.cs ReadMe.html. The metadata for the VSIX project, describing the.vsix installer file and also the project shown in the solution explorer, showing the files included.
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