Remove Custom Project Template that was Automatically Imported

Question

I deleted the exported zip file that was placed in my exported templates folder and of course it still shows in Visual Studio\'s \"Add New Project\" dialog. I expected that but

Answer 1

At least for VSIX templates, the official way using VS2010 simply works:

Tools->Extension Manager...->Installed Extensions->Templates->$yourTemplate->[Uninstall|Disable]

If that works for you in the first place, you don't have to mess around with different folder layouts.

Answer 2

I was able to solve this problem for my Visual Studio Community 2017 by first deleting the template zip files in the following folders:

%UserProfile%\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates
%UserProfile%\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\My Exported Templates

Then deleting the following folder:

%UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_aed38a72\ProjectTemplatesCache

(The identifier after "15.0_" might vary)

Answer 3

After manually searching for some of the custom profile templates(.vstemplate),I found them at the following location:

%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions

It appears VS2010 installs some of the templates as extesions or the authors made it that way.I hope this helps someone.

May need to run "devenv /setup" at the run command to refresh the VS2010 after you delete the templates.

Answer 4

if anyone need the answer for VS 2015 and Windows 7(I know) it's %UserProfile% \Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Templates\ProjectTemplates

Answer 5

My OS Windows 8.1 and I use Visual Studio 2013.

Here is the path of Custom Templates;

%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ProjectTemplatesCache

For this case, my path of custom templates like;

C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ProjectTemplatesCache

Answer 6

Try looking under %userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ProjectTemplatesCache. This is where the unzipped cache of the template would usually be stored. If it isn't there, try searching for a folder named ProjectTemplatesCache anywhere in your user data directory.