In Visual Studio’s path you will find the default templates, these are a set of zip files that get expanded into the template cach.
They are stored in
- Item Templates –
%VSInstallDir%\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\ - Project Templates –
%VSInstallDir%\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\
Extracting the {{.zip}} in question and recompressing with the modified contents will update the template. You can also copy these files to one of the respective template folders in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2010.
For information on building templates have a look at Visual Studio Templates on MSDN.
You then need to tell VS to rebuild the cache.
- Open a visual studio command line shell
- Execute
devenv /installvstemplates
You can also use the “Export Template…” wizard from the file menu, however the exported template loses original content such as if statements.