Provide ability to backup/export installed project templates

Provide ability to backup/export installed project templates by vs2010junkie

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Type:	Suggestion
ID:	644698
Opened:	2/16/2011 5:22:44 PM
Access Restriction:	Public

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When working with Visual Studio configurations from machine to machine, there is no way to backup\export all of the installed project templates. This includes project templates installed via extensions, installed via applications such as the Visual Studio SDK as well as project templates added through the My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\ProjectTemplates path.

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Visual Studio 2010

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1. Install Visual Studio 2010
2. Install Visual Studio 2010 SDK
3. Install Windows Identity Foundation SDK
4. Launch Visual Studio 2010
5. Attempt to create a new web site from the File-->New-->Web Site menu item
6. Notice that there is an option to create various Claims-aware applications such as a Claims-aware ASP.Net Web Site
7. Look through the Tools menu
8. Notice that there is no option to export currently installed project templates
9. Re-install operating system
10. Re-install Visual Studio 2010
11. Notice that there is no option in the Tools menu to import a backup/archive of installed project templates
12. Attempt to create a new web site from the File-->New-->Web Site menu item
13. Notice that the previously available project templates for creating Claims-aware applications are missing

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Windows 7

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Unable to easily backup/export all installed project templates for easy restoration later. Instead, all of the previously installed applications which installed project templates into the Visual Studio IDE need to be installed once again.

Be able to easily backup/restore all installed project templates so that they can easily be migrated from machine to machine as well as restored after an uninstall and a re-install. This will avoid the trouble of having to re-install all currently installed applications and extensions which added project templates to the Visual Studio IDE.

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Thank you for taking the time to help us make Visual Studio and the .NET Framework better. At this point, we are taking suggestions, including this one, and pulling them together as part of our planning and evaluation for the next release. We know that our customers are the most qualified people to help us learn how to make our products better, and we greatly appreciate hearing your ideas. Again, thank you for your suggestion.