visual-studio-templates

I would like to be able to create a Multi-Project Template for a solution which contains the following two projects ( where the interface should include a reference to the business layer ).: <proj_name>.interface <proj_name>.business . Normally, you can include $safeprojectname$ , which has: The name provided by the user in the New Project dialog box However, as pointed out in the article Build a multi-project visual studio template The problem here is that within each child template, $safeprojectname$ represents the current project name. There needs to be a way to pass in the root