Live Templates

This tab in the Templates Explorer is used to manage live templates. It contains the list of available templates for different languages, a preview area where samples of selected templates are displayed, and a toolbar with a set of buttons to create and edit templates:

The Template Editor code pane that you can launch from the toolbar is described on a separate page.

This page only describes list items and user controls in this tab. See Index of Predefined Templates for a detailed list of predefined live templates.

Toolbar

Control	Name	Description
	Layer	Specifies the layer that contains all changes to be made to templates.
	Manage layers	Opens the Settings Layers dialog.
	New Template	Creates a new template.
	New Category	Puts a selected template into a new category (a single template can be assigned to multiple categories).
	Edit Template	Opens the Template Editor code pane for editing a selected template.
	Delete	Deletes a selected template or category.
	Import	Imports templates from an XML file.
	Export	Exports templates to an XML file.