CustomParameters Element (Visual Studio Templates)

Article
11/15/2016

Note

This article applies to Visual Studio 2015. If you're looking for the latest Visual Studio documentation, see Visual Studio documentation. We recommend upgrading to the latest version of Visual Studio. Download it here

Groups the custom parameters that are to be passed to the template wizard when the wizard makes parameter replacements.

Syntax

<CustomParameters>  
    <CustomParameter/>  
    <CustomParameter/>  
</CustomParameters>

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

None.

Child Elements

Element	Description
CustomParameter	Optional element. Contains a custom parameter name and value to use when a project or item is created from the template. There may be zero or more `CustomParameter` elements in a `CustomParameters` element.

Parent Elements

Element	Description
TemplateContent	Specifies the contents of the template.

Remarks

Example

The following example shows how to use several custom parameters in a template. When a project or item is created from a template with the following custom parameters, all instances of $color1$ and $color2$ in the template files will be replaced with Red and Blue, respectively.

<CustomParameters>  
    <CustomParameter Name="$color1$" Value="Red"/>  
    <CustomParameter Name="$color2$" Value="Blue "/>  
</CustomParameters>