For questions regarding working with project templates in an IDE, such as those visible in Visual Studio's New Project dialog.
Questions tagged [project-template]
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How to make ReSharper re-evaluate its assembly reference highlighting
I am creating a Prism Project Template, and the template works great. But after I create a project with the template some of the files look like this:
Despite appearances, everything is just fine.
If I do a Rebuild All I see that the solution…

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Visual Studio Project/Item Template Parameter Logic
Since I have only seen a few posts on the topic but no in-depth explanation of the logic for parameters in templates for Visual Studio, I figured I'd post this here.
Following the MSDN article you can add custom parameters to your template that can…

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How to make a new Eclipse project template?
I am using a kind of framework where every time I make a new Java project. I have to arrange the files in the appropriate packages and reference the appropriate external JAR libraries. How do I make a new project template like in the New Project…

Mohit Deshpande
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How can I delete bad Visual Studio templates?
How do you remove the following noise templates that don't even work?

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Remove Custom Project Template that was Automatically Imported
I deleted the exported zip file that was placed in my exported templates folder and of course it still shows in Visual Studio's "Add New Project" dialog. I expected that but I'm having a difficult time finding where else the template files are…

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MVC5 project template for Visual Studio 2012
I'd like to get started with ASP.NET MVC 5 using Visual Studio 2012. I've installed the "ASP.NET And Web Tools 2013 for Visual Studio 2012, but this "only" gives me an "Empty ASP.NET MVC 5 Project" template.
For MVC4 web projects, I can select…

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How do I create a Visual Studio project template that includes linked files?
In Visual Studio 2010, I want to create a project template that includes links to two files that should exist on the system. One of them is a common AssemblyInfo.cs file. Another is the strong name key file (*.snk).
I need these references to be…

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Add an Item to the visual studio folder right-click menu within AddIn
I want to add a menuitem to the right-click=>Add menu in visual studio 2012 solution explorer. When click the custom item I can add a project with my template.
I developed a Visual Studio Add-In to do it but I get into some trouble. I am able to add…

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Custom Project Type Templates
When you create a new project in WebStorm, you are given the option to create a new directory structure prepopulated with files: libraries, stylesheets, etc. for patterns like HTM5 boilerplate, Twitter boilerplate, etc.
How does one create one's own…

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Cannot find .NET 5.0 Console App project template in Visual Studio 2019
I'm currently trying to create a C# .NET 5.0 Console Application in Visual Studio 2019, and the option does not appear under project templates as I expect it to.
I downloaded Visual Studio Professional 2019 Version 16.9.4 (from…

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updating Visual Studio templates on new release of jQuery (and other libraries)
Now that Visual Studio => 2010 has jQuery support, I'm wondering how I can update the project template when a new jQuery release comes out? Currently when you create a project, it automatically creates the 1.4.1 files (in VS2010), but jQuery is…

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Is there a Visual Studio Test Project template for NUnit?
Is there an official Visual Studio test project template for NUnit? If not, what might one look like?

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How to create or define a new target in a custom Xcode project template
TL;DR: What XML snippets do I add to my TemplateInfo.plist files, to create a second compiler target when creating a new Xcode project?
While working on my own Xcode project template, I'm trying to have KIF integration testing working in a 'out of…

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Script for creating a new project in Rstudio
I want to write a template that creates new projects in RStudio. What I want to do is:
Create a new Rstudio project in a folder called "MyNewProject"
Create a new project using ProjectTemplate package in this folder by:…

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Create a Visual Studio project programmatically
As my question say I want to create a new project based in a template which already created an tested and works fine, but i have two problems when i tried to do it in C# code (in a mvc3 project).
Which are the differences between EnvDTE80,…

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