Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Exporting Project Templates

Imagine you often create WPF applications that need implementing menus. It would be interesting to have a project template that automatically implements basic menus so that you don’t need to rewrite a lot of code each time. Create a new WPF project with Visual Basic and name it as WpfMenuProject. When ready, type the following XAML code inside the Grid tags to implement basic menu functionalities:

Before going on, save the project. When saved, select the File, Export Template command. The first choice is between the project and item template, as shown in Figure 56.1. Leave unchanged the selection on Project Template ...