Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Exporting Item Templates

You can export single items, such as classes or controls, to item templates you can later add to other projects. To see an example, add a new class to the current project and name it as DisposableClass.vb. The goal of the exercise is to provide a template for classes implementing the IDisposable interface. When ready, implement the IDisposable interface in the new class so Visual Studio will add required members. (You should write custom code for implementing the Disposable pattern, but this is not the goal of the exercise; see Chapter 8, “Managing an Object’s Lifetime,” for more information.) Now select again File, Export template. In the first dialog box of the wizard, select the Item template option (as shown in ...