Summary

This was the final chapter on an advanced productivity feature of Visual Studio, deploying multiproject templates. In this chapter, we gave an overview of a sample client-server application, CitySelector, which consists of a WPF application retrieving data from a Web API serving sample data. We walked through a recipe for creating VSIX deployment packages. The ingredients we covered included a deployment project, a template project, and a custom code project.

By implementing the IWizard interface, we were able to launch a form during new project creation to gather user input for use by our Web API project template. Finally, we rounded off the chapter with information on how to publish and distribute project templates in the Visual Studio Marketplace. As highlighted in the last section, you can also create project templates for use with the dotnet new command. These can even be packaged as NuGet files for easy installation.

Not every developer will find an immediate use...