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I installed VS 2022 CE on a vm and copied my custom template to the correct template location, but I can't get VS to show my template when you select Create New Project. I have the vm set up the same as my desktop. I just copied the zip file to the vm. It's the same template. I have VS 17.8.6 on my desktop and 17.9 on the vm. I've tried the 'repair' fix, but to no avail.
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Hello, could you tell us how you created a custom template? What is the specific template location?
Please ensure that the .zip template file is put in the Visual Studio project template directory. By default, this directory is %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2022\Templates\ProjectTemplates.
You can restart your VS and directly search the template name in the "Create a new project" window.
Hi Anna, I created the template by creating a project and then saving it as a template. This works fine on my desktop pc for several years. But when I copied the zip file to the location you mentioned, VS doesn't recognize it. I verified in Options that this is the correct location. I've tried all the suggestions that MS provided. The only difference between the two pc's is that the vm version of VS is 17.9 instead of 17.8.
See the comments to answer posted to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/714454/location-of-visual-studio-2022-project-template-ca for guidance on forcing VS2022 to update its cached project templates.
That didn't work either. Thanks for the suggestion though.
I found the problem. I wasn't paying close attention. On the vm, instead of %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2022\Templates\ProjectTemplates, I put the template in ProjectTemplates\C#. The vstemplate file is coded for C#, but VS couldn't find it in that folder. When I moved the zip to the ProjectTemplates folder, it found it. Now the question is, why does VS put those folders there if it can't find templates there??
Thanks for your help.
Hello, sorry for my delay reply!
Your default user project template location is %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2022\Templates\ProjectTemplates, instead of ProjectTemplates\C#.
So, the VS will find your template from ProjectTemplate location.
Thank you for your reply, but I think you misunderstood my comment. Let me reword it. Visual Studio created 6 subfolders. One of them is \C#. If VS can't automatically find templates in the subfolders, is there a way to get VS to find a file that you put there? Another way to look at it: If you can't utilize those 6 folders, why did VS create them?