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Updating and deploying (copying the zip file containing the vstemplate file and all the goodies) to my Visual Studio 2022 project template directory (ex. \Templates\ProjectTemplates\MyTemplateDirectory\MyFancyProjectTemplate.zip), the changes/updates are not being reflected in Visual Studio.
Closing/re-launching Visual Studio does not work, so I can only assume the templates are being cached somewhere. Where does Visual Studio 2022 cache the project template files so I can delete them?
Thanks
Try typing in one of the project names in the search input. In some cases it may take up to a minute for the template to be found no matter a partial or full name. I had to do this with all the following custom templates.
Karen,
Thank you for the reply. The template does exist, but any changes are not. For example, modifying a description, changing the icon, etc, are not reflected in Visual Studio. After many hours of searching, I found Visual Studio caches templates in two locations and wrote a powershell script to delete the directories.
For those curious where they are:
%appdata%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\<the version of visual studio, 16.0_4810b0af, 17.0_e97c61af, etc>\ItemTemplatesCache and ProjectTemplatesCache
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\<the version of visual studio, 16., 17., etc>
In those directories, locate and delete InstalledTemplates.json.
After deleting the folders/files and restarting Visual Studio, it would display/use the updated templates. Is there a better way?
Kevin,
Thanks for this post. I have several custom VS2019 project templates that I copied over to VS2022. I updated the templates but found that VS2022 ignored them. Your post on how to find and clear the VS2022 cache saved the day. :)