02.18 Reorganize the Default Project Templates

VERSIONS

2005, 2008, 2010

CODE

vstipProj0018

Warning

The procedures in this tip could cause some of your templates to disappear unless you follow the instructions carefully. So do this at your own risk. You might want to back up your ProjectTemplates folder just to be safe.

Maybe it’s just me, but I get really annoyed that, for example, my WCF project templates are in a WCF section when I go to create a new project—but my WPF projects are under “Windows.” That just doesn’t seem intuitive. So this example shows you how you can create custom areas for the default project templates that ship with Visual Studio. In this example, you create a WPF area for your WPF project templates.

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