Thursday, December 20, 2007

Bundling Visual Studio templates for distribution

Microsoft's done a fairly good job in packaging for Visual Studio templates. Simply:

  1. Create an xml file that adheres to the Visual Studio Content Installer Schema Reference
  2. Rename the xml with a "vscontent" extension
  3. Place the vscontent file and your template zip into another zip file
  4. Rename that zip file with a "VSI" extension.

Now, when you double click the VSI file it runs a wizard that installs your template into the appropriate Visual Studio Template folder.

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