The new project type and template does not show up after installing VSIX package

Question

I have developed a VSPackage for Visual Studio. I followed all the instructions in these walkthroughs:

Part 1 - Creating a Basic Project System

Part 2 - Creating a Basic Project System

Everything works fine when I debug the project: I see a new project type defined by me under the Installed Templates.

Problem

However when I deploy this VSIX installer to the Visual Studio Gallery or install it manually, I don't see the template and the new project type.

Question

How can I make this work when deploying?

Note

What I want is a VSPackage that when you install, it will add a new project type and adds some other menu commands to the menu bar.

Answer 1

I solved this doing these steps by:

• Adding the generated .zip template from the bin/debug folder to my project in Visual Studio.
• Then adding this file as an asset to the .vsixmanifest file.
• Finally rebuilt the solution and deployed the .vsix file to the Visual Studio Gallery.

Note These steps were not mentioned in the MSDN walkthroughs.