Unclear how to create custom templates

[MarvinKlein1508]

Type of issue

Missing information

Description

I want to create my own custom template, and I came across this documentation by accident while browsing:
https://github.com/dotnet/templating/tree/main/dotnet-template-samples

Via Google, I only found these two articles, which seem to be outdated:

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/creating-custom-project-and-item-templates?view=visualstudio
  (This project type does not exist.)

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/creating-project-and-item-templates?view=visualstudio
  (The dotnet-template-samples aren’t using .vstemplate files.)

Finally, I came across what I believe to be the most recent documentation here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/custom-templates

However I don't get how to start in this process even with the most basic example.

The docs are showing a very basic structure

However there is no mentioning on how to do this. Do I need to create the .csproj file manually in VSCode? Can this process be done via Visual Studio at all?

I triey to follow along by manually creating a .csproj file and copying in the content from the docs. But for some reason it automatically generates a .sln file and bin + obj directories.

What is the supposed way to get a very basic template working like from the docs?

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/custom-templates

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/docs/blob/main/docs/core/tools/custom-templates.md

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5cc9715f-21d2-827f-38fe-398b5dbefbc4

Article author

@adegeo

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