After creating a solution for a project, I exported it as a template. Now after exporting it automatically adds the template to my IDE and creates a ZIP file with all the project files and a .vstemplate extension file.
Now i am on another computer with visual studio and i wish to load this template and save it in the IDE, but i cannot find this option anywhere. The temporary solution i have is to open an empty web application and copy all the contents of the ZIP file not including the .vstemplate file. So my question is how can i load this template into my IDE?
When opening the vstemplate file in Visual Studio all i get is a text editor and XML data.
I am using Visual studio 2013 with Update 4.
Once you've exported your template, copy the entire ZIP file that was created to the folder C:\Users\[User Name]\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Templates\ProjectTemplates. (You might want to use one of the provided subdirectories to keep your template organized.)
Restart Visual Studio, and then use the search bar in the New Project dialog to help you find the project template you just added.
For the record, it looks like using templates changes with VS2017. Your project template provider will have to publish via a new build mechanic, and it'll be a bit different than just dumping a .zip into a user folder:
Using Project/Item Templates:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/upgrading-custom-project-and-item-templates-for-visual-studio-2017
Create Project/Item Template:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/creating-custom-project-and-item-templates
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I have created a new Project Template by exporting a project via Project -> Export Template. Opening Visual Studio now, I can see my template showing up.
I then went to
Documents\Visual Studio 2022\My Exported Templates
and moved the MyTemplate.zip to another folder. Went to
Documents\Visual Studio 2022\Templates\ProjectTemplates
and made sure that MyTemplate.zip is not in there as well.
Now when I open VS again, I can see that my template is not available anymore.
To counter check, I moved the zip back into Documents\Visual Studio 2022\Templates\ProjectTemplates , reopened VS and made sure that the template is visible again.
I then went ahead, extracted MyTemplate.zip and compressed it into a zip again (Right Click -> Compress to Zip). Now when I move that zip into Documents\Visual Studio 2022\Templates\ProjectTemplates and restart VS, the template does not show up.
Bottom line, I am unable to import any template that I have manually compressed into a zip archive, seems like something is happening to the zip during extract / compress. I have been testing this on Win 11 with the OOB zip tools as well as nanazip.
Did you try extracting your template project ZIP file?
I was struggling as well but as soon as I extracted my custom template project with the rest of the Default templates it started showing up.
VS template is looking for folders in the ..\Visual Studio 2022\Templates\ProjectTemplates\ not a zip file. If you want your template to show up, move its folder there.
In my case the problem was that I named the XML file .vstemplate. It needs to be something.vstemplate.
I've made a custom project template and when I create a new project in Visual Studio using this template I want to open a file(which belongs to the template) into the Visual Studio's document window(code editor window/whatever...) right after the project is loaded.
If, for example, I create a C# - .NET Framework - Console Application the file Program.cs is opened after the project is fully created and loaded into Visual Studio.
When I use my custom template, no file is opened and the document window is empty.
I would like to achieve the same behavior as it happens for the built-in templates and have a file be opened when the project is loaded
I suspect I would have to edit the .vstemplate file and add some specific tag that would instruct Visual Studio to do that, but I can't find anything useful in the microsoft documentation relating vstemplate element.
I'm using TypeScript for the first time. I'm using Visual Studio 2013 with update 4, Web Essentials with update 4, and have the latest version of TypeScript from Microsoft's website. However, following the tutorial doesn't work for me: when saving a TS file, it automatically compiles to JavaScript on the screen to the right of the code I typed, and a JS file is created in the folder. However, this file is not added to the project automatically. How can I set Visual Studio 2013 to automatically add generated JS files to the project?
How can I set Visual Studio 2013 to automatically add generated JS files to the project
Use a glob for your TypeScript folder i.e. modify your .csproj file to include:
<Content Include="client-src\**\*.*">
</Content>
Besides Basarat's answer which works, there's also another solution: not doing anything. TypeScript generates a JavaScript file, which automatically gets placed in the same folder as the TypeScript file. When in Visual Studio, right click the folder your TypeScript file is in, and select "open folder in file explorer". You should see that the folder holds both the TS file you made, and the JS file that got generated.
You do not need to add this JS file to your project folder inside Visual Studio: you can just reference it. If you have an MVC project with a Scripts folder that has a file called greeting.ts (the one you make in the TypeScript tutorial), the path would be "~/Scripts/greeting.ts". Instead, just use "~/Scripts/greeting.js" (ending with js instead of ts). Visual Studio is smart enough to figure it out from there. This works with bundles as well.
I would like to create custom templates for c# files, unit test classes, .aspx.cs etc so that common items to all files are included once they are created eg file headers. I am working with visual studio 2010 and resharper 6. What is the easiest way to create these files and is it possible to be able to share them a team of developers easily? Appreciate any assistance or information as to how I might achieve this.
Visual Studio templates are simple enough to create - you can distribute them to your colleagues to setup in the same location on their computers (or even create an installer, if you want to makes things even easier).
See Creating Project and Item Templates and the Introduction to Visual Studio Templates on MSDN.
Contents of a Template
All project and item templates, whether installed together with Visual Studio or created by you, function by using the same principles and have similar contents. All templates contain the following items:
The files to be created when the template is used. This includes source code files, embedded resources, project files, and so on.
One .vstemplate file. This file contains the metadata that provides Visual Studio the information it needs to display the template in the New Project and Add New Item dialog boxes and create a project or item from the template. For more information about .vstemplate files, see Visual Studio Template Metadata Files.
When these files are compressed into a .zip file and put in the correct folder, Visual Studio automatically displays them in the My Templates section of the New Project and Add New Item dialog boxes. For more information about template folders, see How to: Locate and Organize Project and Item Templates.
You should open Templates Explorer from ReSharper | Templates Explorer. Then select the File Templates tab. There are default templates that comes with ReSharper. You can examine them and see how you can write your own. Here's the documentation and there's a question for useful examples.
I'm stuck on this tutorial for creating a multi-project visual studio template. I'm specifically stuck on this line:
Select the files and folders to include in your template, right-click the selection, click Send To, and then click Compressed (zipped) Folder. The files and folders are compressed into a .zip file.
I did the following steps:
Create 2 projects. (MyProj.Web and MyProj.Service)
Reference MyProj.Service in MyProj.Web.
Export both. They are now in a .zip file.
What do I do from here?
My intentions are: Make solution folders where some dlls will be (DI, unit testing frameworks, etc). Have these dlls referenced. Reference projects in other projects. Rename part of the projects. For eg. the ability to replace {MyProj}.Service with NewName.Service
The other parts includes making the .vstemplate xml file and placing the zip in the ProjectTemplates.
Per the article:
Put the .zip template file in the Visual Studio project template
directory. By default, this directory is \My Documents\Visual Studio
2010\Templates\ProjectTemplates\
The Visual Studio template will then be available from File > New Project. If making a template for a single item, place it in the \ItemTemplates folder instead to make it available from the Add New Item context menu in Solution Explorer.