Questions tagged [visual-studio-templates]

A number of predefined project and project item templates are installed when you install Visual Studio.

These templates appear as project types in the New Project Dialog Box.You can use one of the many project templates to create the basic project container and a preliminary set of items for your application, class, control, or library. You can also use one of the many project item templates to create, for example, a Windows Forms application or a Web Forms page to customize as you develop your application.

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Visual Studio Project template with a wizard

I am looking for an example of how to build a visual studio project template that contains a wizard. The wizard will be used to collect additional choices from the user to customize the selected template. I figured out how to build templates, but I…
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Set default namespace include references for Web Form with Master template?

I would like to modify the default using statements included at the top of the code behind file of a newly created web form (with master page) in Visual Studio 2013. My application is a C# Web Application. Currently, when I use the template for "Web…
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Templates for Visual Studio 2008 missing after full install of Standard Edition

I have a server with something called Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU which only provides templates for SSIS work. I did not remove that before installing the VS 2008 Standard Edition (at the end of this there was no demand for a…
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Would having several classes with the same name in different VS (Sharepoint) Projects be problematic?

Is there a compelling reason to change a generic class name, as "inherited" from a Project Templete? I have this code in my new project, which was created from a (self-created) template: // REPLACE: Change the name of this class, if desired, to…
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Which is the most advantageous strategy for creating a tweaked Visual Studio Project Template?

I'm appealing to the wisdom of the crowd here, trying, in this case, to avoid the code less traveled. I created a Visual Studio project template, but now find there are a couple of things I can/should add to it, and one or two things I need to…
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Is there any way we could use the VS designers for SP Content Types, Lists, etc. in non-standard SP or SP Apps VS project templates?

We are interested in making some custom VS project templates for our developers and this would be a great help. More specifically, we want to create a unified starter VS project template for new SharePoint developers that could target both full…
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How to prompt user developers for project-specific values when they create a Project from a Custom Template?

I am creating a project that I will export as a Project Template, using this and this as guidance. These are to be Sharepoint 2010 projects created using Visual Studio 2010. What I would really like to have happen is that the user be prompted for…
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Cordova template missed in Visual Studio 2015

I had Visual Studio 2015 beta and everything worked correctly. After installing CTP 6 over the existing version of VS, updated version of Visual Studio left Hybrid app template. I looked for a way to install it separately and tried to update Visual…
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Visual Studio Error When Creating New ASP.NET Web Application

I have successfully created Web API projects a few days ago using Visual Studio 2013 update 4. Today when I try to create a project using the same default project that comes with VS, I get this error: Unspecified error (Expection from HRESULT:…
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Visual Studio - How to use an existing vsproj's project settings as a template for new project?

There is some software I want to write a plugin for. The software includes some sample plugins. I want to create a new fresh project but I want to use one of the sample plugin vsproj's project settings as a template. It doesn't seem very clear on…
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Where is $targetframeworkversion$ being set in vstemplates?

I made a new project template and I do see a usage of $targetframeworkversion$ all around the code. The thing I can't find is where this value is being set and how to change it? Thanks
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i want to put a variable in a aspx so when publishing it transform to actual date

I want to put a variable in a aspx so when publishing it transform to actual date... I mean I want to change Actual date: 23/12/10 for Actual date: $date and when it compiles it gets rendered
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How to prevent project from generating from template?

I am creating multiproject visual studio template. I created VSIX package project and Wizard class library. Added those projects as assets in source.extension.vsixmanifest file of VSIX project. In Wizard class library I added a Windows Form, to…
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Template for Windows Phone Apps Development in Visual Studio 2010

I have Visual Studio 2010 Professional installed but it does not give option to develop windows phone apps. Is there any template that I can download for this or any other solution so that i can carry out win apps development with my current Visual…
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How can I create visual studio 2012 template from Office App template?

How can I create my custom visual studio template based on Office App template?
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