Visual Studio Templates - custom parameters

Question

I am using VS 2015 templates to create a project for me, within my C# classes I have substitutions like $projectname$ and they work great if I name my project like

Answer 1

If you just want to generate a valid class name based on the project name, instead of creating a custom template parameter, you can change $projectname$ to $safeprojectname$, which is documented as:

The name provided by the user in the New Project dialog box, with all unsafe characters and spaces removed.