Include Custom DLL's in Visual Studio Project Template

Question

Good Day,

I am trying to create a project template in Visual Studio 2008 and have had success in doing so.

Is it possible to include some custom assemblies in my project template so I don't have to add a reference to these assemblies once I instantiate a new project? If this is possible, how would I go about do this?

TIA,

coson

Answer 1

Yes update the project file in the template in the zip file. Or use the export to template in vs with the reference already included. link text will make this easier.

Answer 2

I'd like to bump this question - I'm in the process of putting together a template and have no trouble including the using statements but can't seem to automatically include the required dll's in the template. Is this possible? I'd like to avoid having the developer having to manually add the assemblies after opening the template.'

Thanks!