How to generate a Visual Studio 2022 template extension

To create Visual Studio extensions you need the VSIX component.

In the Visual Studio Installer, go to modify Visual Studio 2022, click on individual components and Install the Visual Studio SDK, as shown in the figure below.

After installation, the VSIX templates appeared on the project creation screen.

After installing the VSIX component, create an exception:

After generation, install the extension.

In Visual Studio go to Extensions → Manage Extensions

In the Manage Extensions window, in the first item: Installed, you will see the new extension installed and ready to be used.

Project example on GitHub: https://github.com/geraldsimon/TemplateExtension

This all happened on our local machine, but now how are we going to distribute this extension within the company with all developers?

References: Video on how to generate a template extension

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