Visual studio Other Project Types

These templates appear under the Other Project Types category. The projects in the Setup and Deployment section all use Visual Studio Installer Deployment and are intended to be added to an existing solution.

Project Template	More Information
Setup and Deployment/InstallShield 2010
Setup and Deployment/Visual Studio Installer/Setup Project
Setup and Deployment/Visual Studio Installer/Web Setup Project
Setup and Deployment/ Visual Studio Installer/Merge Module Project
Setup and Deployment/ Visual Studio Installer/Setup Wizard
Setup and Deployment/ Visual Studio Installer/CAB Project
Extensibility/Visual Studio Add-in	Visual Studio Add-ins add functionality to the Visual Studio and Visual Studio Macros environments. For more information,
Extensibility/Shared Add-in	Shared Add-ins can add functionality to one or more Microsoft Office applications, as well as to Visual Studio. For more information,
Visual Studio Solutions/Blank Solution	This creates a solution file and directory structure to add projects to.

Database

These templates appear under the Database category.

Project Template	More Information
SQL Server/SQL Server 2005 Database Project	Database projects provide ways to programmatically interact with databases. For more information,
SQL Server/SQL Server 2005 Server Project
SQL Server/SQL Server 2005 Wizard
SQL Server/SQL Server 2008 Database Project
SQL Server/SQL Server 2008 Server Project
SQL Server/SQL Server 2008 Wizard
SQL Server/Data-tier Application
SQL Server/Visual Basic SQL CLR Database Project
SQL Server/Visual C# SQL CLR Database Proejct

Modeling Projects Templates

The following templates appear under the Modeling Projects category.

Project Template	More Information
Modeling Project

Test Projects Templates

The following templates appear under the Test projects/Test Documents subcategory.

Project Template	More Information
Test Documents	Creates a test project to use for automated tests. For more information about how to create automated tests,

Other Visual Basic and C# Templates

The following templates appear under other subcategories of the Visual Basic and Visual C# nodes, as indicated.

Project Template	More Information
Cloud Service/Enable Windows Azure Tools	Provides instructions for enabling Windows Azure Cloud Service projects by installing Windows Azure Tools. For more information,
Reporting/Reports Application	Creates a report project to fill in manually or with the Report Wizard.
Reporting/Crystal Reports Application	Creates a Crystal Reports reporting project.
Silverlight/Silverlight Application	Creates a standard Silverlight application project with the option to host it in a Web project. For more information,
Silverlight/Silverlight Navigation Application	Creates a Silverlight application project that contains user-interface (UI) components, such as headers, footers, and navigation sidebars.
Silverlight/Silverlight Class Library	Creates a Silverlight class library project for consumption by Silverlight applications.
WCF/Syndication Service Library
WCF/WCF Service Library
WCF/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,

Visual C++ Windows Templates

Project Template	More Information
ATL/ATL Project	Creates a project that uses the Active Template Library.
CLR/Class Library	Creates classes to use in other applications.
CLR/CLR Console Application	Creates a console application.
CLR/Empty Project	Creates an empty project for creating a local application.
CLR/Windows Forms Application	Creates an application with a Windows user interface.
CLR/Windows Forms Control Library	Creates controls to use in Windows applications.
General/ Empty Project	Creates an empty project for creating a local application.
General/ Makefile Project	Creates a project for using an external build system.
General/ Custom Wizard	Creates a custom application wizard. For more information,
MFC/MFC Application	Creates an application that uses the Windows Foundation Class Library. For more information,
MFC/MFC DLL	Creates a dynamic link library that uses the Windows Foundation Class Library. For more information,
MFC/MFC ActiveX Control	Creates an ActiveX control that uses the Windows Foundation Class Library. For more information,
Test/Test Project	Creates a test project to use for automated tests. For more information about how to create automated tests,
Win32/Win32 Project	Creates a project to host a Win32 application, console application, DLL, or static library.
Win32/Win32 Console Application	Creates a Win32 console application.

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.
For more information,

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.

Visual Basic/Office or Visual C#/Office subcategories.

For more information about developing Office solutions, see Office Project Templates Overview.

Project Template	More Information
Excel 2007 Add-in Excel 2010 Add-in	Creates an application-level add-in for Excel 2007 or Excel 2010. For more information,
Excel 2007 Template Excel 2010 Template	Creates a template customization for Excel 2007 or Excel 2010. For more information,
Excel 2007 Workbook Excel 2010 Workbook	Creates a workbook customization for Excel 2007 or Excel 2010. For more information,
InfoPath 2007 Add-in InfoPath 2010 Add-in	Creates an application-level add-in for InfoPath 2007 or InfoPath 2010. For more information,
Outlook 2007 Add-in Outlook 2010 Add-in	Creates an application-level add-in for Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010. For more information,
PowerPoint 2007 Add-in PowerPoint 2010 Add-in	Creates an application-level add-in for PowerPoint 2007 or PowerPoint 2010. For more information,
Project 2007 Add-in Project 2010 Add-in	Creates an application-level add-in for Project 2007 or Project 2010. For more information,
Visio 2007 Add-in Visio 2010 Add-in	Creates an application-level add-in for Visio 2007 or Visio 2010. For more information,
Word 2007 Add-in Word 2010 Add-in	Creates an application-level add-in for Word 2007 or Word 2010. For more information,
Word 2007 Document Word 2010 Document	Creates a document customization for Word 2007 or Word 2010. For more information,
Word 2007 Template Word 2010 Template	Creates a template customization for Word 2007 or Word 2010. For more information,