Where can I find the project templates for ASP.NET MVC 1.0?

Question

I would like to edit the ASP.NET MVC templates for Visual Studio so that any new action or controller created has a specific piece of code within it by default.

For instance, I'd like to replace the generated:

    public ActionResult MyAction()
    {
        return View();
    }

with a specific coding standard we prefer to use within in my team. eg:

    public ActionResult About()
    { 
        try 
        {
             DoStuff();
             return View();
        }
        catch(Exception)
        {
             HandleException();
        }
    }

I've looked through the filesystem, but I cannot find anything specific that relates to the ASP.NET mvc templates. Anyone know where they are?

Answer 1

You may take a look at the following location:

C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\Common7\\IDE\\ItemTemplates\\CSharp\\Web\\MVC

Link for ASP.NET MVC 2 Project templates, not sure if same for ASP.NET MVC 1.0 though.

Answer 2

All inbuilt project templates are held in %VS-Root%\\Common7\\IDE\\ProjectTemplates .

MVC project templates here (with my non-standard install folder) are C:\\VS2008\\Common7\\IDE\\ProjectTemplates\\CSharp\\Web\\1033\\MvcWebApplicationProjectTemplatev1.cs.zip and C:\\VS2008\\Common7\\IDE\\ProjectTemplates\\VisualBasic\\Web\\1033\\MvcWebApplicationProjectTemplatev1.vb.zip .