Visual Basic and C# SharePoint Templates

The following templates appear under the Visual Basic/SharePoint or Visual C#/SharePoint subcategories, and may be further sorted into 2007 and 2010.

Project Template	More Information
SharePoint 2007 Sequential Workflow	Workflow templates manage the life cycle of documents and list items in a SharePoint Web application. This template creates a sequential workflow.
SharePoint 2007 State Machine Workflow	This template creates a state machine workflow.
Empty SharePoint Project	Creates a SharePoint project with no project items.
Visual Web Part	A Visual Web Part project is an Empty SharePoint project that contains a Visual Web Part item. For more information, s
Sequential Workflow	Creates a sequential workflow project, which is a series of business logic steps, performed in sequence, until the last step is completed. See SharePoint Workflow Solutions.
State Machine Workflow	Creates a state machine workflow, which is a set of business logic states, transitions, and actions. The steps in a state machine workflow are not performed in sequence; instead, they are triggered by actions and states. See SharePoint Workflow Solutions.
Business Data Connectivity Model	Lets you integrate business data from back-end server applications, such as SQL Server, Siebel, and Service Advertising Protocol (SAP), into SharePoint.
Event Receiver	Lets you handle events for items in the SharePoint site, such as lists, Web items, and workflows.
List Definition	Lets you define all of the components of a SharePoint list, such as its fields, forms, views, and toolbar.
Content Type	Lets you create custom content types based on an existing (base) SharePoint content type such as a document, announcement, or a task.
Module	Contains any files that you want to accompany the SharePoint project, such as development notes or a Readme file.
Site Definition	Contains all the elements that define a SharePoint site.
Import Reusable Workflow	Lets you import a reusable, declarative workflow created in SharePoint Designer 2010 into Visual Studio.
Import SharePoint Solution Package	Lets you import an existing SharePoint site, exported to a .wsp file, into Visual Studio. Once imported into Visual Studio, you can customize its items and redeploy them. For more information,

Visual Basic and C# Workflow Templates

The following templates appear under the Visual Basic/Workflow or Visual C#/Workflow subcategories.
All of the templates in this section create projects that use Windows Workflow Foundation. Windows Workflow Foundation enables model-driven workflow development, providing natural design visibility and hiding system-level concerns such as transactions, state management, and concurrency control.
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Project Template	More Information
Activity Designer Library	The Activity Designer Library template is used to create a custom activity designer. Custom activity designers are used to create the design-time experience for activity use, controlling how the activity and its property page appear in Visual Studio. For more information,
Activity Library	The Activity Library template is used to create a composite activity from pre-existing activities. For more information,
WCF Workflow Service Application	The WCF Workflow Service Application template is used to create a workflow that uses message activities to send and receive WCF messages. For more information,
Workflow Console Application	The Workflow Console Application template is used to create a workflow that is hosted in a console application. The workflow is implemented as a Sequence activity.