Hiding ASP.NET 5 Project Templates from VS 2012 and 2013

[RehanSaeed]

My project template VSIX targets VS 2012, 2013 and 2015. I don't want the ASP.NET 5 project template in it to be available in VS 2012 or 2013.

In my _project.vstemplate.xml file I have been using the following setting which stops the above from happening. Today, I realized that developers can just install .NET 4.5.1 and the ASP.NET 5 project template will become visible again.

<RequiredFrameworkVersion>4.5.1</RequiredFrameworkVersion>

Is there a more reliable way of hiding project templates from older versions of VS? Is creating separate VSIX's for each version of VS the only way?

[sayedihashimi]

I'm not sure about this one. We will need to reach out to the vs template team for more info. Can you email me at sayedha@MSFT?

[codewithtyler]

Let me know what you find out. That way we can apply the same principal to #286.

[sayedihashimi]

Thanks, I'm not sure if this is possible with the .vsix support that exists today. I've reached out to the template team to see if they have any info.

[codewithtyler]

@sayedihashimi did we ever get any info on this from the template team?