02.15 Organizing Your Custom Item Templates

VERSIONS

2005, 2008, 2010

CODE

vstipProj0020

In vstipProj0013 (02.14 Roll Your Own Project Template with the Export Template Wizard, page 57), I showed you how to create custom item templates but didn’t show you how to organize them.

Fortunately, organizing them is pretty easy. After you have created your template(s), navigate to the folder My Documents\Visual Studio <version>\Templates\ItemTemplates. For example, on my machine, the path is My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ItemTemplates.

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As you can see in the preceding illustration, I have a custom item—a class called “Really Cool Regex Class.” Unfortunately, ...

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