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Different template names for text files in C# and VB.NET to use with Solution2.GetProjectItemTemplate

When you execute the following macro that gets the file templates for classes, forms and text files in C# and VB.NET:

Sub Macro1()

   Dim objSolution2 As EnvDTE80.Solution2

   objSolution2 = CType(DTE.Solution, EnvDTE80.Solution2)

   MsgBox(objSolution2.GetProjectItemTemplate("Class.zip","VisualBasic"))
   MsgBox(objSolution2.GetProjectItemTemplate("Form.zip", "VisualBasic"))
   MsgBox(objSolution2.GetProjectItemTemplate("Text.zip","VisualBasic"))

   MsgBox(objSolution2.GetProjectItemTemplate("Class.zip", "CSharp"))
   MsgBox(objSolution2.GetProjectItemTemplate("Form.zip", "CSharp"))
   MsgBox(objSolution2.GetProjectItemTemplate("Text.zip", "CSharp"))

End Sub

It fails for the 6th case:

objSolution2.GetProjectItemTemplate("Text.zip", "CSharp")

I thought it was a bug but it happens that the symmetric beauty of the code is broken because the actual name for the C# case is “TextFile.zip”, not  “Text.zip”:

objSolution2.GetProjectItemTemplate("TextFile.zip", "CSharp")

It seems that C#/VB.NET parity didn’t reach this point yet 😉