TemplateGroupID Element (Visual Studio Templates)

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11/15/2016

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Specifies what kind of project an item templates will show up in. This element is significant when ShowByDefault (Visual Studio Templates) is set to false. When ShowByDefault (Visual Studio Templates) is set to true, then an item template is available in all project types.

Syntax

<TemplateGroupID> ... </TemplateGroupID>

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

None.

Child Elements

None.

Parent Elements

Element	Description
TemplateData	Categorizes the template and defines how it displays in either the New Project or the Add New Item dialog box.

Text Value

A text value is required.

The text specifies an identifier for a category of item templates.

Remarks

TemplateGroupID is an element.

The value of the TemplateGroupID element is used along with project system registration (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\<version number>\Projects\) to filter templates that appear in the Add New Item dialog box.

Visual C++ Value	Meaning
VC-Native	Used for native projects. Also the default if a project type can't be determined.
VC-Managed	Used for managed (/clr) projects
VC-Windows	Used for all projects that target the windows platform (native/managed/store)
WinRT-Native-UAP	Used for Windows 10 store projects
CodeSharing-Native	Used for Shared item projects
WinRT-Native-6.3	Used for Windows 8.1 Store projects
WinRT-Native-Phone-6.3	Used for Windows Phone 8.1 projects
WinRT-Native	Used for Windows 8.0 Store projects
VC-Android	Used for Android projects