I’m trying to create some custom project templates for TinyCLR. So far, I can’t get Visual Studio 2026 to recognize them when I install them to the same place I normally put .Net templates.
So, I’d like to compare my templates to those that are part of the TinyCLR extension. But I can’t find the latter. Where does the extension install its project templates?
you can put the zip file into: C:\Users\…Documents\Visual Studio 2026\Templates\ProjectTemplates\
It has to be in zip file
It must have vstemplate file
vstemplate must be in root of zip
vstemplate is below:
<VSTemplate Version="3.0.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/vstemplate/2005" Type="Project">
<TemplateData>
<Name>My test TinyCLR Template</Name>
<Description>A 2nd basic TinyCLR application template.</Description>
<ProjectType>CSharp</ProjectType>
<ProjectSubType></ProjectSubType>
<SortOrder>10</SortOrder>
<CreateNewFolder>false</CreateNewFolder>
<DefaultName>TinyCLRApp</DefaultName>
<ProvideDefaultName>true</ProvideDefaultName>
<LocationField>Enabled</LocationField>
<EnableLocationBrowseButton>true</EnableLocationBrowseButton>
</TemplateData>
<TemplateContent>
<Project File="MyTestTemplate.csproj" ReplaceParameters="true">
<ProjectItem ReplaceParameters="true" TargetFileName="Program.cs">Program.cs</ProjectItem>
<Folder Name="Properties" TargetFolderName="Properties">
<ProjectItem ReplaceParameters="true" TargetFileName="AssemblyInfo.cs">AssemblyInfo.cs</ProjectItem>
</Folder>
</Project>
</TemplateContent>
</VSTemplate>
