Hi Don,

It appears the instruction about manually creating a project template
doesn't apply to a custom unmanaged project system. I will contact our VSIP
specialists to look into this issue.

We will reply you with more information soon.

Thanks for your understanding!

Best regards,

Gary Chang
Microsoft Community Support
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Hi Don,

Gary sent me some mail asking about creating a template based on your
project type.  The easiest approach right now would be to take the same
approach as the VC++ wizards.  Use the old wizard approach right now with
your MyC based project system.  Here are some steps you can take to create
a traditional wizard that will work with the myc project system.  I believe
the vstemplate approach requires certain automation objects to be in place
for your project system so we'll need to document that in the future.  The
old wizard approach (the wizards that were used in VS.NET 2002/2003, also
require automation but myc implements just enough for this to work)  
VsProject object typed projects support the newer approach so if you had a
VB/C#/J# type project then the vstemplate approach would be the way to go.  
You already noticed that VC++ projects use the older approach described
below.

1) In Visual Studio 2005, go to File | New Project | Visual C++ | Custom
Wizard
2) Remove default.vcproj underneath the miscellaneous files folder.  
(Select the node in solution explorer, right click, select Remove)
3) Copy an empty project file (0 bytes) into the wizard directory i.e.
mycproject.mycp.  For testing, you might need to copy it to C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\VCWizards as well so the code in
default.js can find it.
4)  Right click on the Miscellaneous folder and select add existing item to
add mycproject.mycp you copied to your wizard directory.  
5) Modify default.js like the following
function OnFinish(selProj, selObj)
{
    try
    {
        var strProjectPath = wizard.FindSymbol('PROJECT_PATH');
        var strProjectName = wizard.FindSymbol('PROJECT_NAME');

        selProj = CreateCustomProject(strProjectName, strProjectPath);
        var InfFile = CreateCustomInfFile();
        AddFilesToCustomProj(selProj, strProjectName, strProjectPath, InfFile);
        InfFile.Delete();

    }
    catch(e)
    {
        if (e.description.length != 0)
            SetErrorInfo(e);
        return e.number
    }
}

function CreateCustomProject(strProjectName, strProjectPath)
{
    try
    {
..
        strProjTemplate = strProjTemplatePath + '\\mycProject.mycp';
..
        strProjectNameWithExt = strProjectName + '.mycp';
..
}

function GetTargetName(strName, strProjectName)
{
..
    try
    {
//the name below should match to any files you are adding to the project
and to any files you add to templates.inf.  I have one source file named
t01.myc that
//I want named to sourcefile1.myc when the the project is created  
    if (strName == 't01.myc')
           strTarget = 'sourcefile1.myc';
        return strTarget;
..
}

function AddFilesToCustomProj(proj, strProjectName, strProjectPath, InfFile)
{
..
//change the following line
//proj.Object.Add(strFile) to
projItems.AddFromFile(strFile);
}

The above is one example how wizards need certain automation functions
implemented since it would be harder to go through IVsProject::AddItem in a
wizard.

Add files to the templates.inf file and template files folder that you want
to add to your new project.  Make sure you modify the GetTargetName
function in default.js above.

For example my templates.inf file has the following entry:
t01.myc

After testing, you'll deploy the vsdir, vsz, ico file for your wizard, to
the directory specified in
HKLM\Software\VisualStudio\8.0(Exp)\Projects\{project guid}
named value: ProjectTemplatesDir c:\Program Files\Visual Studio 2005
SDK\2005.10\VisualStudioIntegration\Archive\MyCPkgs\MyCPrj\MyCPrjProjects

I can also send you mywizard that I created that demonstrates
(mikewong@onlinemicrosoft.com) take the online out of the address.

With wizards, you can debug into the script by going to

Start 2 instance of the ide (devenv.exe).
From one instance, open up the js file that you want to debug into.  Set
the appropriate breakpoints.
from the same instance in step 2, select Debug | Attach to process.
In the available processes list, select the other instance of devenv.exe
In the same attach to process dialog, click on the select… button, check
the box for “Script”
Click on OK
Click on Attach.
In the second instance go to File | New Project or any other steps to
exercise the wizard.  We should hit the breakpoints.

That will be useful when you need to step through the js file to see what
the values are.

I hope that helps.

Thanks!
Mike Wong
Microsoft Developer Support

Hi Don,

I got the mail you sent me but my mail back to you keeps getting bounced
back.  Could you send me another mail to my email address?  

much appreciated,
mike