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I've been looking at the MS site How to: Create Project Templates trying to figure out how to make a project template based on a sample project that I wish to deploy to my company. However in this page: How to: Create Item Templates, it says:

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You cannot export templates for C++ projects

So now I'm a bit confused and annoyed. Can I make a C++ project template or not? If not, then how does MS do it? If so, how do I do it.

Adrian
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  • I feel a silly strong urge to mention that `export` of templates was never implemented in Visual C++ (as far as I know it was only ever implemented in Comeau C++ and halfway documented in the Intel compiler), and was removed in C++11. But that's something else. Just as Visual Studio export of an item template is something else than export of a project template. – Cheers and hth. - Alf Sep 22 '15 at 03:43
  • @Cheersandhth.-Alf, you should feel silly since this has nothing to do with C++ templates, and everything to do with VS project template mechanism. – Adrian Sep 22 '15 at 03:55
  • Thank you all (two so far) for trying to clarify something you haven't read. Why not read it first. That's my view. – Cheers and hth. - Alf Sep 22 '15 at 03:57
  • @Adrian, Have you actually tried? It is not a problem in VS2015 - maybe they patched it in VS2013 by now. – MikeMB Sep 22 '15 at 04:04
  • @Cheersandhth.-Alf, tl;dr. Why even bring that up? It isn't relevant to the question. You even say so in "But that's something else". o.O – Adrian Sep 22 '15 at 04:04
  • @MikeMB, I'm currently trying, but I'm finding the docs are sketchy. – Adrian Sep 22 '15 at 04:05
  • Looks like this is to be done manually in 2013. :( But I can't find any documentation to do this manually. :( – Adrian Sep 22 '15 at 12:20

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