Visual Studio 2015 Export Template Not Working

[danroth27]

From @TLHamilton on August 17, 2016 16:5

In Visual Studio 2015 I will create a new project File>New>Project>Templates>Visual C#>Web>ASP.NET Core Web Application (.Net Framework).

Once created, I will export a template from the project File>Export Template.

When I try to use this template to create another new project, none of the Template contents shows up.

I have seen a few comments about this on the web, but have not found a solution.

Is this a known problem? Is there a solution or work around?

Thanks.

Copied from original issue: aspnet/Mvc#5153

[danroth27]

From @ThoughtHaven on August 17, 2016 17:33

I haven't verified this, but someone may have found a work around. Hope this works for us both.

[danroth27]

From @TLHamilton on August 17, 2016 20:13

Sorry, but I could not get it to work when this work around was purposed and I still cannot get it to work.

I would be very interested if someone can verify this.

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I haven't verified this, but someone may have found a work aroundhttps://github.com//issues/306#issuecomment-195498755. Hope this works for us both.

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[danroth27]

From @ThoughtHaven on August 17, 2016 20:16

Didn't work for me either, unfortunately. It'll be nice when somebody gets this working.

[mlorbetske]

TFS Bug#255944

[rgamage]

Same issue here, workaround didn't work for me. VS 2015 Update 3.

[Steffeng87]

Found a workaround on Stackoverflow (It is working for me with VS 2015 Update 3):

http://stackoverflow.com/a/39718930

Copied from link:

I found the way to do this. Open up the zipfile and edit the .vstemplate file. The line that is missing is
<CreateInPlace>true</CreateInPlace>

This line goes between

<TemplateData></TemplateData>

This solves the problem for .NET Core 1.0.1 Tooling Preview 2, VS2015 Update 3.