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Nov 8, 2017</div></div></div></section><section id=single><div class=container><div class="row justify-content-center"><div class="col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-9"><div class=pr-lg-4><article class="page-content p-2"><p>In the <a href=/blogs/creating-dotnet-new-and-visual-studio-project-and-solution-templates/>first part of this set of posts</a> I looked at creating a dotnet new project template, and in the <a href=/blogs/creating-visual-studio-project-and-solution-templates-part-2-vs-for-windows-extension-2/>second part</a> I showed how you could easily add this to a Visual Studio for Windows extension. Lets now look at adding it to a Visual Studio for Mac extension, so that our template is available everywhere.</p><p>It’s really easy to create extensions for VS for Mac for new project types. In a <a href=/blogs/creating-an-add-in-for-xamarin-studio/>previous blog post</a> I discussed the old way of doing it which, like for VS on Windows, involved a load of files that couldn’t be compiled as they had replacement tokens, and no easy way to test the output projects without debugging the extension.</p><p>This all changes now. Instead of adding all the project files, you just need to add the NuGet package created for <code>dotnet new</code> with a build action of Add-In File, then add an entry into the <code>Manifest.addin.xml</code> file to make it available:</p><pre tabindex=0><code><Extension path="/MonoDevelop/Ide/Templates">
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id="MvvmCrossNativeSinglePage.CSharp"
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_overrideDescription="Creates a new single page native MvvmCross app."
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path="Templates/MvvmCross.Templates.CSharp.Native.SinglePage.iOS.Android.nupkg"
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icon="res:MVVMCross.XSAddIn.Icons.MvvmCross.png"/>
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</code></pre><p>This manifest entry provides a description to show in the File->New dialog, the category in that dialog to put the template into, an icon and the path in the addin to the NuGet package. You can add as many NuGet packages as you want, with one <code>Template</code> entry per NuGet package. And that’s it - no need to add the project files, <code>xpt.xml</code> files or anything hard like that. You can see an example of this with my MvvmCross templates on <a href=https://github.com/jimbobbennett/MvvmCross-Templates>my GitHub</a>.</p></article></div></div><div class="col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-3"><div class=sticky-sidebar><aside class=toc><h5>Table Of Contents</h5><div class=toc-content><nav id=TableOfContents></nav></div></aside><aside class=tags><h5>Tags</h5><ul class="tags-ul list-unstyled list-inline"><li class=list-inline-item><a href=https://jimbobbennett.dev/tags/technology target=_blank>technology</a></li><li class=list-inline-item><a href=https://jimbobbennett.dev/tags/xamarin target=_blank>xamarin</a></li><li class=list-inline-item><a href=https://jimbobbennett.dev/tags/visual-studio target=_blank>Visual Studio</a></li><li class=list-inline-item><a href=https://jimbobbennett.dev/tags/mac target=_blank>Mac</a></li><li class=list-inline-item><a href=https://jimbobbennett.dev/tags/extension target=_blank>extension</a></li><li class=list-inline-item><a href=https://jimbobbennett.dev/tags/dotnet-new target=_blank>dotnet new</a></li></ul></aside></div></div></div><div class=row><div class="col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-9 p-4"><div id=disqus_thread></div><script>var disqus_config=function(){this.page.url="https://jimbobbennett.dev/blogs/creating-visual-studio-project-and-solution-templates-part-3-vs-for-mac-extension/",this.page.identifier="052ec6ecdf615432dd84cbecc99a937d"};(function(){if(window.location.hostname=="localhost")return;var e=document,t=e.createElement("script");t.src="https://jimbobbennett.disqus.com/embed.js",t.setAttribute("data-timestamp",+new Date),(e.head||e.body).appendChild(t)})()</script><noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=https://disqus.com/?ref_noscript>comments powered by Disqus.</a></noscript></div></div></div><button class="p-2 px-3" onclick=topFunction() id=topScroll>
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