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What's the file location to put custom .xft and .xpt templates that will be safe from an install/upgrade as well as show up in the "Add -> New Item..." or "Add -> New Project..." dialogs?

 On a Win machine is it somewhere in the %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\ICSharpCode\SharpDevelop2.1\ tree or does it have to go in #D's data\templates tree?
 

Looking at the code SharpDevelop searches the SharpDevelop\data\templates path and any paths defined in the .addin files. So there's no support for custom templates in different folders.

If you're using the installer for 2.1 it does not remove any files or folders that it didn't create. However it could be possible that a new template is added with a newer release of SharpDevelop and it has the same name as one of your files.

I've added a feature request to implement custom template folders to the bugtracker.
 

Thanks for the info about the locations and the installer.

Not to pile onto your feature request, it would also be nice to have other things such as Licenses.xml in data\options\TextLib able to be customized and stored in a different folder.  For example,  I add Apache 2.0 and others to the license file and then copy it over the base license file every time I install a new build of #D.

Matt,

Should I pop the apache license into data\options\TextLib in the 2.1 tree along with whatever common licenses are missing?