Visual Studio Hacks

Create a File Template #88

Chapter 12, Extending Visual Studio

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HACK

VC#Wizards and VBWizards subfolders. Inside these folders, you’ll find

the various wizards and templates.

Inside the wizards folders are further subfolders that contain each individ-

ual wizard. The names of these folders match the

WIZARD_NAME parameter

from the .vsz files. So you’ll want to add a CSharpHTTPHandler and

HTTPHandler folder to the VC#Wizards and VBWizards folders.

Inside these folders, you must follow some conventions for templates and

scripts that Visual Studio will require to be able to find your files. You’ll

need a Templates folder and a Scripts folder. Inside each of those folders

needs to be a 1033 folder. 1033 isn’t really a magic number. It’s a LocaleID

that represents standard English. Since we’re just dealing with an English

installation of Visual Studio here, this is what the folder needs to be named.

If you were to use an installation of a different spoken language, you should

expect a different number.

HTTPHandler.ashx Template File

You now have nearly everything set up that you need to have this hack work.

You’ve got Visual Studio acknowledging that your template exists. If you

bring up the Add New Item dialog box, you’ll see an entry for the HTTP Han-

dler (see Figure 12-3). If you click the Open button, it will now try to find the

HTTPHandler.ashx file in the Templates/1033 folder of VC#Wizards or