Assembly Element (Visual Studio Templates)

Specifies information about an assembly, which the template uses to add a reference of that assembly to projects.

<VSTemplate>
  <TemplateContent>
    <References>
      <Reference>
        <Assembly>

<Assembly> AssemblyName </Assembly>

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

None.

Child Elements

None.

Parent Elements

Text Value

A text value is required.

This text specifies the assembly to add to a project when the item template is instantiated. This assembly name must be specified in one of the following ways:

• As a full assembly name. For example:

  <Assembly>
      MyAssembly, Version=1.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a, Custom = null.
  </Assembly>
  

• As simple text reference. For example:

  <Assembly> System </Assembly>
  

Remarks

Assembly is a required child element of Reference.

The Reference, References, and Assembly elements can only be used in .vstemplate files that have a Type attribute value of Item. For more information on adding references to templates, see How to: Add References to Templates.

Example

The following example illustrates the TemplateContent element of an item template. This XML adds references to the System.dll and System.Data.dll assemblies.

<TemplateContent>
    <References>
        <Reference>
            <Assembly>
                System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
            </Assembly>
        </Reference>
        <Reference>
            <Assembly>
                System.Data, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
            </Assembly>
        </Reference>
    </References>
    ...
</TemplateContent>

See Also

Tasks

How to: Add References to Templates

Reference

Visual Studio Template Schema Reference

Other Resources

Visual Studio Templates