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Hi,

I have installed Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Beta 2). I'm wondering if the "Enterprise Templates" are included in this version? If so, how do I access them?

Thanks.

Regards,

Mikael

MikaelJ

Mikael,

VS 2005 does not contain the same ETP-based enterprise template projects that you saw in VS 2002 and VS 2005; however, the same type of experience is available through Solution Folders. You can apply policy, just as you did in ETP projects, and do other customization. In fact, if you have existing ETP solutions and open them in VS 2005, a wizard will take you through the upgrade of the ETP folders in the solution to Solution Folders.

JWelton

Jeff

JWelton

In Visual Studio 2005, Enterprise Templates have been replaces by Visual Studio Templates and Policy. For customers wishing to use this functionality in VS 2005, the recommended course of action is to build a Wizard by implementing the IDTWizard interface which creates projects from project templates and applies policy programmatically. A fairly comprehensive sample and accompanying documentation with ship with Visual Studio 2005, although much of this was not ready for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2.

Programming Writer, Team System UE

Matthew Stoecker

The Visual Studio Templates and Policy sample is now available online at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms242357.aspx. This version also corrects a bug in the version in local help that makes building impossible without modifying the files.

Matthew Stoecker
Programming Writer
Visual Studio Team System UE

Stoecker

is is possible to have

1. Ineritance in templates, i.e i create a template with some files and properties. Can i create a second new template which inherit properties and files from template 1 and add some extra files/properties of its own.

2. I have a template and say 'N' number of projects have been created using this template. Is it possible that i modify some project property in the template, and it reflects in all the project that were created using this template.

singhhome

1. Since the Wizard you create with the current implementation of Visual Studio Templates and Policy is a class, it should be possible to inherit from this class to create a new wizard with aspects of the old. You will still have to incorporate it into a deployment project, however, and ensure that the project tempaltes are correctly hooked up.

2. You would have to write this code yourself, but I don't see why it couldn't be done.

Hope this helps!

Programming Writer, Team System UE

Matthew Stoecker

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