Creating an ASPX template file as we did in the previous section is only half the story. We still need to create an entry in the MCMS repository (or the template gallery item) to let MCMS know about the template file we’ve created.
An additional window appears in Visual Studio .NET for projects that are MCMS enabled: the MCMS Template Explorer.
The MCMS Template Explorer (shown on the next page) provides a graphical interface to manage template galleries and template gallery items. In Chapter 4, we created template galleries using Site Manager. We can do the same using the MCMS Template Explorer in Visual Studio .NET.
This is a good feature that nicely integrates Visual Studio .NET with MCMS. It gives template designers the ability to use a single tool to maintain templates. They don’t have to use Site Manager to maintain template galleries; all required tasks to create and update templates can be performed from within Visual...