How to create a project template node outside Visual C# Project Type Node?

Question

Using VSIX project if I do

<VSTemplate Include="ProjectTemplate1.vstemplate">

    <OutputSubPath>Sample Test Project</OutputSubPath>

</VSTemplate>

the location is \bin\Debug\ProjectTemplates\CSharp\Sample Test Project\1033\ProjectTemplate1.zip

This will create a project template inside Visual C# Template in VS Installed Templates. However, I don't want to have Visual C# as my Project Type Node. It should be outside Visual C# Project Type Node.

How can I achieve this? What changes I need to make and how? Please help

Preteritive

Answer 1

According to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2010/03/04/creating-and-sharing-project-item-templates.aspx,

The “Type” attribute in the .vstemplate file root node. Project templates go under “ProjectTemplates”. Item templates go under “ItemTemplates”.

The “Language” part of the path (“CSharp” in our example) is determined by the node in the .vstemplate file.

So, it would appear that you need to create either create a project template from a different type of project, or edit your project template type within the project that you are creating.

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