Chapter 9: Creating Your Own Templates

Having completed Chapter 8, Introduction to Project and Item Templates, you can appreciate the power and speed project templates bring to the creation of a new project. Instead of starting with a blank slate, within seconds developers can have an entire working project that is nicely organized and preconfigured with best-practice code, and often has many sample screens. While there are a number of great templates available online, sometimes we just want to do it "our way," and a custom template makes perfect sense.

In this chapter, we will shift our attention to turning our City Selector sample Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application into our own custom project template. By the end of the chapter, you will have gained the basic skills it takes to make repeatable application architectures that work the same way as the built-in Visual Studio templates.

Here, we will put the concepts learned into practice, as we will be...