For questions regarding working with project templates in an IDE, such as those visible in Visual Studio's New Project dialog.
Questions tagged [project-template]
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How do you save project as templates in CLion?
There is a helpful feature in Intellij that allows you to save a project as a template. In CLion, I can only see the options "Save as Live Template" and "Save File as Template" in the tools window. I have searched on YouTrack, but there doesn't seem…

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Visual Studio Project Template *.projitems not found
I have created a visual studio template which worked fine. But as soon I try to add a new project to my solution by using this new template I get the following error:
"The imported project "c:\users\xy\AppData\Local\Temp\Common\Shared\XY.projitems"…

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Project Template Not Updating on Build
I've been working on a project template today, first time doing so but it has been going alright. I'm almost finished but have now run into some weird issue I can't figure out.
For some reason which I don't know, whenever I try and debug my project…

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Cloud service project template not getting listed
I have installed Windows Azure SDK on my machine on top of VS 2010 SP1. "Windows Azure project" template is listed (file->new project) but "Cloud Service Project" template is not getting listed. Do I have to install anything else? Thanks.

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How can I avoid adding item template twice or more in project template?
I have a project template and whenever I try to add an item template, it's created in the right place (folder) but also adds the item in the first folder added to the project. How can i fix this?
Code:
if (project.Kind ==…

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How to add classes checked by user in a Wizard to project template?
I'm developing an extension for Visual Studio and the goal is to allow the user to select classes through a TreeView and after clicking the Ok button the project is generated with the selected classes.
These classes are loaded by reflection from…

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Installing NuGet packages and resolving references with a custom project type using Common Project System
I am creating a project type using Visual Studio Common Project System and hooked up the NuGet package manager. However, when I install a package it fails with the following error:
Attempting to gather dependency information for package…

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Visual Studio template isn't copying files
I created a multi-project template and it seems to be working for the most part except for one major thing: it isn't copying the files in the template directory over to the new project.
In the image, I'm showing one of the projects that is created…

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Change project icon in Solution-Explorer?
I recently created a template from a CSharp WebApi project and would like to have the icon from this template also displayed in the Solution-Explorer.
When using the template export wizard of visual studio I supplied the custom icon I want for…

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Eclipse PDE CDT "template.xml" configuration
I'm currently trying to develop a template Plug-in for CDT (C/C++ Development Tooling). The goal is to simply get the needed project structure directly via "New Project" without copying and renaming Files manually.
The Documentation seems to be…

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Visual Studio 2017 project template descriptions
There are a lot of project templates for Visual Studio. I am new enough to programming that the little blurb of a description given in the new project window just doesn't give me enough information. Is there a place (perhaps online) where you can…

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How to integrate R ProjectTemplate into R Markdown
I have a complete R ProjectTemplate, which has a complex folder structure and i want to transfer this whole Project into an R Script or an R Markdown for a better understanding (writing a research paper about it).
Is it possible to transform a R…

Till Opel
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GeneXus Platform SDK installer not working for Visual Studio 2015
I'm trying to setup an environment to develop a Genexus extension for version 15.
After installing Visual Studio Express 2015 (based on Genexus wiki instructions) I'm installing Genexus SDK Platform 15 Upgrade 3
The SDK installer pop up an error…

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TFS-Board: Make field mandatory when moved to done column in kanban board
We have a customized workflow in TFS 2017 and want to make a field mandatory (REQUIRED) when the work item is pulled to the kanban done column (state will not change!).
As far as I know only state changes may get REQUIRED rules.
I tried this but it…

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VS2008 Smart Device Project Template not found
I have installed Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition and cannot see the option to start a new smart device project (for windows mobile).
I have checked in the project installation directory and found that there is 5 templates.(C:\Program Files…

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