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Teaching by Example

Some concepts are easy to understand simply by listening to a lecture or reading a book. Others require examples in order to fully comprehend them. Enterprise templates are a perfect example of the latter. Because much of an enterprise template is shell code, it is sometimes hard to explain. In the following sections, you will learn how to create a new enterprise template. The entire process can be broken up into several distinct parts.

Setting Up the Prerequisites

The first step in developing anything is to set up your environment. The same holds true with the development of an enterprise template. Before you start this example, make sure that you set up your system to display hidden files, folders, and file extensions in ...