Developing Visual Studio Templates

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Visual Studio templates are written in XML and are used by Visual Studio to create solutions or to add one or more projects or items to an existing solution. The templates are expanded by the Visual Studio Template Engine. The Visual Studio templates you create for use with the Recipe Framework must contain additional information to the templates usually used by Visual Studio. This section details the steps you must take to develop the Visual Studio templates that form part of your Guidance Packages and are used by the Recipe Framework.

See also

Syntax of Visual Studio Templates | Defining Solution Template | Defining Project Template | Defining Item Template