There is one vital step for creating your custom projects and this is in the use of custom DLLs. Now to create the project template, you must first create the project.
While I’m sure you’d like to imagine your bosses will thank you so much offer you a promotion and a big pay rise, let’s face it, this won’t happen, but at least you will have benefited mankind and maybe prevented some of your colleagues from throwing themselves/or computers out the window. Now with a custom project template, when a user creates a new project, they use the custom template and all this is done for them. A complex system already and prone to mistakes. Then import the About Box existing form into their project. This means that for every program they create, the first thing they must do is reference your DLL and then import the logo into their project. Now imagine that your company adopts your DLL and every individual who develops any program for your company now uses it, along with your company logo, about box and icon. Let’s imagine you develop a custom DLL for your company say for advertisements and your company has a logo with a default About Box and set icon, a fair assumption. So Why Should You Use a Project Template? It is a complex project that requires many different external components, including custom DLLs. EMGU is used within this example for the reason that using a project template is ideal. a project template is a tool and as such should only be used when necessary. Does this mean you should create one for everything you create? No.
Templates save us time, save time and we save money. Well, it uses a template, this is the case over many different applications, Word, Excel and even your phone will have templates for items such as multimedia messages and texts.
Take a standard Windows Form, how does VS know to put a new form with code behind in your project, link that as the start up form and even call it Form1. It is an empty project in effect, that contains all the pre-requisites you require to start creating an application. Project Templates So What is a Project TemplateĪ project template is what you see when you start a new project in Visual Studio. While some of this will be covered, it won’t contain enough detail for a complete novice.
Understands how to import files and what dynamic link libraries are used for. It is assumed that a reader is comfortable within the C# environment, can create their own project. The SP1 SDK is available here, VS 2010 SP1 SDKĮnsure you restart Visual Studio after installation so that you can use the extension properly. Service Pack 1 is available here, VS 2010 SP1. Unfortunately, to generate a custom template, you will need Visual Studio 2010, with Service Pack 1 and the SP1 SDK. This can change between users and VS 2010 solves this issue by introducing VSIX project templates.
Custom project templates can be made in 2008, however exporting them requires installation in specific folders. This tutorial is designed so that user can export the projects among a community or work colleagues with ease. While the following tutorial is based upon using C# and EMGU, all the processors remain true and can be ported over to generating your own projects. A custom template can save large amounts of time if your projects are complex and based upon custom dynamic link libraries and many external components. The following tutorial explains how to generate your own custom Microsoft project templates.
Download the VSIX project template - 2.50 MB.