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In VS2010 SDK extensibility what is the difference between "Visual Studio Package" project type & "VSIX Project" type ? Both of them are producing VSIX files for publishing the templates.

leppie
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This has actually been answered as part of a suite of questions asked here:

Getting started with Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility - 3 questions

Both projects produce a VSIX. the VSIX project just produces an empty one, whereas the package project sets you up with a Managed Package Framework package. Here are some walkthroughs for packages.

As this is specific to this particular problem, I think its worthwhile keeping it as a separate Q/A rather than closing the question.

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