MrDave's (David Yack) WebLog

Snowboard Therapy and .NET Project Templates

If you haven't tried Snowboard Therapy - I highly recommend it...Here's how it works - you simply tell your boss or clients that you are going to Snowboard Therapy.  By the time they realize what it means you will be half way down from Peak #8

Ok, on a more serious note - is it just me or do others think it would be valuable for Microsoft to invest more time in making Project Templates easier to make?  What do I mean by a project template?  The process of starting a new project from visual studio and having VS create a set of initial files and directories for you. 

Now that .NET is a couple years old - we all should have some fairly routine things we do when we start new projects - We also should be able to easily create page / class templates that allows us to produce consistent looking pages / classes.  I think we all customize the “basic” web form  - why not make it easier to do than figure out what files to modify in the VC#wizards directory.

For those of you who have never dived into the black hole of templates here's a recent article that discusses it that reminded me how much of a black hole it really is! http://aspalliance.com/309 

 

Comments

Robert McLaws said:

Microsoft should spend as much time as humanly possible in this arena. VS.NET as a whole sucks as an extensibility platform, and MS has a LOT of cleanup work to do.

I'd love to be able to reformat my AssemblyInfo templates to suit my company needs, but I spent 5 minutes going through the templates directory and said forget it. There are at least 14 different places where the templates live.

There should also be a "New Template" project, where you can create your own templates using a Wizard-like experience.
# December 21, 2003 12:34 AM
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