The new project type and template does not show up after installing VSIX package

Question

I have developed a VSPackage for Visual Studio. I followed all the instructions in these walkthroughs:

Everything works fine when I debug the project: I see a new project type defined by me under the Installed Templates.

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Problem

However when I deploy this VSIX installer to the Visual Studio Gallery or install it manually, I don't see the template and the new project type.

Question

How can I make this work when deploying?

Note

What I want is a VSPackage that when you install, it will add a new project type and adds some other menu commands to the menu bar.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 23 '15 at 20:42

I solved this doing these steps by:

Adding the generated .zip template from the bin/debug folder to my project in Visual Studio.
Then adding this file as an asset to the .vsixmanifest file.
Finally rebuilt the solution and deployed the .vsix file to the Visual Studio Gallery.

Note These steps were not mentioned in the MSDN walkthroughs.

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