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Jim Bennett

Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, Xamarin Certified Developer, author of Xamarin In Action, blogger, speaker, father and lover of beer, whisky and Thai food. Opinions are my own.

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Creating Visual Studio project and solution templates - Part 3, VS for Mac extension

Featured Jim Bennett 08 Nov 2017 technology, xamarin, Visual Studio, Mac, extension, dotnet new

In the first part of this set of posts I looked at creating a dotnet new project template, and in the second part I showed how you could easily add this to a Visual Studio for Windows extension. Lets now look at adding it to a Visual Studio for Mac extension, so that our template is available everywhere. It's really easy to create extensions for VS…

Creating Visual Studio project and solution templates - Part 2, VS for Windows extension

Featured Jim Bennett 06 Nov 2017 technology, xamarin, Visual Studio, extension, dotnet new, windows

In the first part of this set of posts I looked at creating a dotnet new project template. These are great if you like the cli, but if, like me, you'd rather be able to do File->New then dotnet new is not much use. Instead you need a Visual Studio extension that provides a new project or solution type to the IDE. The good news is that you can easil…

Creating Visual Studio project and solution templates - Part 1, dotnet new

Featured Jim Bennett 25 Oct 2017 xamarin, Technology, .NET Core, dotnet new, templates

I've recently updated my MvvmCross templates to support .NET Standard to be ready for the awesome future. Unfortunately this meant a complete rewrite of my templates as the out of the box Visual Studio project template extensions on both Windows and Mac don't support .NET Standard. As it turned out though, this rewrite was a blessing in disguise as…