Templatizing a project in Visual Studio

Question

I have created a windows mobile application in Visual Studio. I want to templatize this project so that one can open this as a template as opposed to a project.

Is this possible in Visual Studio? I read that there is something called as "VSX (Visual Studio Extension)" which may achieve this. I have Visual Studio Ultimate installed in my system and was trying to install the VS2010 SDK. But its not getting installed telling that i dont have MS Visual Studio 2010 which I apparently do.

Am I going in the right direction? If not what would be the correct way to go ?

Answer 1

I would recommend using the TemplateBuilder NuGet package inside of either a VSIX Project or a Visual Studio package. I've created a 6 minute video showing you how you can: Create a VSIX containing a project template, and then editing the template. Checkit out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z33jOo75CH4.

FYI TemplateBuilder is open source at https://github.com/ligershark/template-builder. If you've heard of SideWaffle it relies on TemplateBuilder.

Answer 2

Yes it is possible like this: File > Export Template than click next :) It will save your code too

Answer 3

This is what I was looking for and it came really handy too.

Export Template Wizard

This exports a project directly as VSIX extension using a wizard.