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Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi edited this page Feb 24, 2014 · 2 revisions

TODO: These notes should be improved.

I've pushed the sample to a new remote branch CustomWizardSample https://github.com/ligershark/side-waffle/tree/CustomWizardSample. Take a look at the commits for details but I had to make the following changes to get a custom wizard to light up in SideWaffle. FYI I had to make changes in the master branch to facilitate this so get latest on master when you start your actual work.

  1. Add a new Class Library project to the solution to contain custom wizard code. Implement custom wizard in that project.

  2. Add a ref to that class lib in TemplatePack project (this is the VSIX Project)

  3. Add an Asset tag to the .vsixmanifest for the assembly. See https://github.com/ligershark/side-waffle/blob/CustomWizardSample/TemplatePack/source.extension.vsixmanifest#L27

  4. Add the project you want to make a template out of to the solution

  5. Add a TemplateReference in TemplatePack project to the project from the previous step (right click Add -> Add SideWaffle Project)

  6. Add the .vstemplate and _preprocess.xml file using the SideWaffle Project Template Files item template

  7. Update the .vstemplate file to reference the custom wizard. See https://github.com/ligershark/side-waffle/blob/CustomWizardSample/Project%20Templates/SampleCustomWizard/_Definitions/_project.vstemplate.xml#L24

After that you can CTRL+F5 / F5 to create a new project from your template and the custom wizard should be invoked.

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