VS 10 beta 1 The new project dialog
***Disclaimer: This information applies to Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 only.***
One of the first new things that you notice when running VS10 for the first time is the new “New Project” dialog.
In this post I will describe how we can tweak a VSIX project template extension to show the information in the dialog.
I will use as a sample the VSIX template extension that I created for MEF VSIX projects.
The information in the new dialog comes from the vstemplate file, but instead of describing the mapping, I think that a picture is worth a thousand words:
As you can see from the picture, the ProjectType node in the vstemplate file, defines the category (Visual C#) in the tree on the left.
But how the template is being added under the “Extensibility” node in the tree?
Let’s take a look at the VSIX deployment installation folder:
%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions\Pablo Galiano\MEF VSIX Project template\1.0\MEFVSIXProject\Extensibility
Every subfolder below \MEFVSIXProject is rendered as node in the tree. If we have for example:
%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions\Pablo Galiano\MEF VSIX Project template\1.0\MEFVSIXProject\Pablo\Galiano
Pablo
