Software Factories – Recipe References and Visual Studio Launch Points. Help me with the plumbing - factories, application blocks and more - John McClelland's Blog. Happy New Year!
As we begin 2007 I thought I'd take the time to address a recurring question I hear on occassion as I meet with developers and architects throughout my community. The question is, what does Microsoft offer regarding out-of-the-box frameworks to help companies standardize some of the plumbing needed to build applications so that development teams can remain focused on building solutions that address the business needs of the organization? .NET Feature — Creating Templates for Visual Studio 2005. Visual Studio project templates and item templates are reusable and customizable stubs that can simplify the development process.
They provide pre-defined starting points for the project or the project items, thus removing the need to create new projects and items from scratch every time. A Visual Studio template is represented by an icon, a name and a description in the New Project dialog or the Add New Item dialog. Behind the scene, each template is a compressed .zip file located in a special folder. Managing templates is as easy as managing files. Documentation with recipes. Visual Studio Guidance Automation Toolkit Forum. Visual Studio Extensibility Forum.