Visual Studio Project Templates

Project templates are shipped with ATLAS 10 to provide developers a starting point for creating plugins.  The templates provide the files that are required for that particular project type, along with default project references and project properties.

The project templates must be installed manually from the ATLAS 10 install folder C:\Program Files\McLaren Applied Technologies\ATLAS 10\VisualStudioTemplates by double clicking on them. The .NET 4.6.2 developer kit must also be installed.

The installed templates can be accessed from the ‘New Project’ dialog in Visual Studio, under the ‘ATLAS 10’ category.  The following ATLAS 10 plugin types will have project templates supplied:

• Displays
• Tool Windows
• Session Browser
• Parameter Browser
• X-Axis Mappings

The project templates supplied with ATLAS 10 are compatible with the following versions of Microsoft Visual Studio:

• Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition
• Visual Studio 2015 Professional Edition
• Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise Edition
• Visual Studio ‘15’ Preview

Using a Project Template

The installed Project Templates will appear under the ATLAS 10 category in the ‘New Project’ dialog in Visual Studio:

Depending on the location in which you installed ATLAS 10, you may need to fix project references to ATLAS 10 API assemblies:

Once you have the Display plugin project building successfully, you will need to copy the compiled assembly to the location in which you have installed ATLAS 10, for example: C:\Program Files\McLaren Applied Technologies\ATLAS 10\