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Creating Project and Item Templates

You can create custom project templates and project item templates and have these templates appear in the New Project and Add New Item dialog boxes.

In This Section

Creating Project Templates: Contains links to topics explaining how to create project templates.

Creating Item Templates: Contains links to topics explaining how to create item templates.

How to: Add References to Templates: Explains how to add references to project and item templates.

How to: Manually Create Web Templates: Explains how to create Web templates.

How to: Locate and Organize Project and Item Templates: Explains the folders that Visual Studio examines when looking for templates.

Related Sections

Visual Studio Templates

Starter Kits

Visual Studio Template Schema Reference