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Using the Amazon CloudFormation Template Editor for Visual Studio

The Toolkit for Visual Studio includes an Amazon CloudFormation template editor and Amazon CloudFormation template projects for Visual Studio. The supported features include:

  • Creating new templates (either empty or copied from an existing stack or sample template) using the supplied Amazon CloudFormation template project type.

  • Editing templates with automatic JSON validation, auto-completion, code folding, and syntax highlighting.

  • Automatic suggestion of intrinsic functions and resource reference parameters for the field values in your template.

  • Menu items to perform common actions for your template from Visual Studio.

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