Creating Project Templates in .NET
Introduction
To help you and other developers jumpstart projects, you can extend Visual Studio .NET by adding custom project templates. This article demonstrates how to create a project template with a custom attribute class library. A class library is simply a DLL, and custom attributes are classes that inherit from System.Attribute, allowing you to define additional metadata to incorporate into your .NET assemblies. (Metadata is information added to .NET assemblies to help mitigate "DLL Hell.") In this article, you'll learn a bit about creating custom attributes and how to create a project template.
NOTE
For a complete discussion of creating custom attributes, see my book Visual Basic .NET Unleashed (Sams, 2002, ISBN 0-672-32234-X).