This project is used to generate the Visual Studio PowerToys Module Template
In Visual Studio from the menu Project->Export Template... generate the template.
Set the name PowerToys Module, add a description A project for creating a PowerToys module and an icon.
Open the resulting .zip file in %USERNAME%\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Templates\ProjectTemplates
and edit MyTemplate.vstemplate to make the necessary changes, the resulting template should look like this:
<VSTemplate Version="3.0.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/vstemplate/2005" Type="Project">
<TemplateData>
<Name>PowerToys Module</Name>
<Description>A project for creating a PowerToys module</Description>
<ProjectType>VC</ProjectType>
<ProjectSubType>
</ProjectSubType>
<LanguageTag>C++</LanguageTag>
<PlatformTag>windows</PlatformTag>
<ProjectTypeTag>extension</ProjectTypeTag>
<SortOrder>1000</SortOrder>
<CreateNewFolder>true</CreateNewFolder>
<DefaultName>PowerToy</DefaultName>
<ProvideDefaultName>true</ProvideDefaultName>
<LocationField>Enabled</LocationField>
<EnableLocationBrowseButton>true</EnableLocationBrowseButton>
<Icon>__TemplateIcon.ico</Icon>
</TemplateData>
<TemplateContent>
<Project TargetFileName="$projectname$.vcxproj" File="ModuleTemplate.vcxproj" ReplaceParameters="true">
<ProjectItem ReplaceParameters="false" TargetFileName="$projectname$.vcxproj.filters">ModuleTemplate.vcxproj.filters</ProjectItem>
<ProjectItem ReplaceParameters="true" TargetFileName="dllmain.cpp">dllmain.cpp</ProjectItem>
<ProjectItem ReplaceParameters="false" TargetFileName="pch.cpp">pch.cpp</ProjectItem>
<ProjectItem ReplaceParameters="false" TargetFileName="trace.cpp">trace.cpp</ProjectItem>
<ProjectItem ReplaceParameters="false" TargetFileName="pch.h">pch.h</ProjectItem>
<ProjectItem ReplaceParameters="false" TargetFileName="resource.h">resource.h</ProjectItem>
<ProjectItem ReplaceParameters="false" TargetFileName="trace.h">trace.h</ProjectItem>
<ProjectItem ReplaceParameters="true" TargetFileName="$projectname$.rc">ModuleTemplate.rc</ProjectItem>
</Project>
</TemplateContent>
</VSTemplate>