Microsoft announces “Windows Template Studio” for Developers

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Today, we are pleased to announce the next evolution in your File → New Universal Windows Platform app in Visual Studio – Windows Template Studio. Windows Template Studio addresses a top community ask in our developer survey to make it easier and provide guidance to create new projects that target the Universal Windows Platform. In this post, we’d like to spend a few minutes introducing Windows Template Studio, and showing you how it works.

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Windows Template Studio uses a dev-friendly wizard to get your UWP apps to F5 in no time, bringing together the pages, frameworks and features that you want. Our wizard walks developers through four steps to quickly scaffold a new UWP app:

Project Type: Select between standard layouts and predefined controls.
Framework selection: Select the structure of your UWP app with in-house and third-party support.
App pages: Select which pages that make sense for the app, that you are trying to create.
App features: Easily add features such as background tasks with one click.

Furthermore, we’re open-sourcing Windows Template Studio, welcoming UWP devs to take the generation engine further – adding additional capabilities and app pages, improving the implemented best practices and patterns – and encouraging UWP devs to make the engine their own – tailoring it to their company’s specific needs.

Windows Template Studio is the evolution of Windows App Studio. App Studio produced a lot of great apps, and we learned a lot from building it and what helps developers. Where App Studio focused on creating a full app, Windows Template Studio focuses on high quality code generation for a strong starting point where developers can start building their application.

A Lap Around Windows Template Studio

We kick off Windows Template Studio by creating a new UWP app project. In the Visual Studio 2017 ‘New Project’ dialog, select the Visual C# → Windows Universal node.

For more information, click here.