Creating an Amazon CloudFormation Template Project in Visual Studio
To create a template project
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In Visual Studio, choose File, choose New, and then choose Project.
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For Visual Studio 2017:
In the New Project dialog box, expand Installed and select Amazon.
For Visual Studio 2019:
In the New Project dialog box, ensure that the Language, Platform, and Project type drop-down boxes are set to "All ..." and type aws in the Search field.
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Select the Amazon CloudFormation Project template.
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For Visual Studio 2017:
Enter the desired Name, Location, etc., for your template project, and then click OK.
For Visual Studio 2019:
Click Next. In the next dialog, enter the desired Name, Location, etc., for your template project, and then click Create.
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On the Select Project Source page, choose the source of the template you will create:
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Create with empty template generates a new, empty Amazon CloudFormation template.
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Create from existing Amazon |CFN| stack generates a template from an existing stack in your Amazon account. (The stack doesn't need to have a status of
CREATE_COMPLETE
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Select sample template generates a template from one of the Amazon CloudFormation sample templates.
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To complete the creation of your Amazon CloudFormation template project, choose Finish.