Customize project and item templates

Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac

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Even after project and item templates have been created, you can further customize them to meet your needs.

Customizations

For example, you can perform the following tasks:

• Modify and export an existing template as a user template.

  For more information, see How to: Update existing templates.

• Pass custom parameters into a template to replace existing values.

  For more information, see How to: Substitute parameters in a template.

• Customize the wizards that create projects from templates.

  For more information, see How to: Use wizards with project templates (extensibility).

See also

• Creating project and item templates
• How to: Troubleshoot templates
• How to: Create project templates
• How to: Create item templates
• Visual Studio template schema reference
• IWizard
• Customize templates by using the dotnet new command
• List or modify projects in a .NET solution file by using the dotnet sln command