Question

I want to create a custom Visual Studio Project Template.
Can I read the location path, that is specified in the New-Project-Wizard in Visual Studio?

My goal is to import a file with custom build targets. This file located in a directory relative to my new project.

I tried it this way:

<Import Project="..\Deployment\custom.targets" />

But when creating a new project from my template it will point to a temporary users directory .

On MSDN I found this article that indicates there is no parameter that contains the location path. I can’t believe that…

Can anyone help me out here?

Answer 1

Since I do not need my custom targets when instanciating a project I solved this with a condition:

<Import Project="..\Deployment\custom.targets" Condition="exists('..\Deployment\custom.targets')" />