What is the difference between Visual Studio Package and VSIX Project types?
.net, c#, sdk, visual-studio-2010
Solution
This has actually been answered as part of a suite of questions asked here:
Getting started with Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility - 3 questions
Both projects produce a VSIX. the VSIX project just produces an empty one, whereas the package project sets you up with a Managed Package Framework package. Here are some walkthroughs for packages.
As this is specific to this particular problem, I think its worthwhile keeping it as a separate Q/A rather than closing the question.
Problem
In VS2010 SDK extensibility what is the difference between "Visual Studio Package" project type & "VSIX Project" type ? Both of them are producing VSIX files for publishing the templates.