Introducing the client-server project

You are already familiar with the common single-project templates that Visual Studio ships with and makes available in the Add New Project dialog. But did you know that it is possible to have multiple coordinated projects in a single template? This multi-project template capability is what we work with in this chapter.

We are going to take a sample client-server application that consists of two related projects and use it as the basis for our multi-project template. So, the goal here is to develop a custom client-server project template that, when invoked from Visual Studio's New Project dialog, creates not one but two related projects, as follows:

• The first (client-side) project is basically the CitySelector Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that we are already familiar with from prior chapters.
• The second (server-side) project is a Web API project designed to provide data to the WPF application.

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