Michael, Check out the answer on this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1724751&SiteID=1 Unfortunately, I don't think it's the answer you were hoping for. Hope this helps, Steve - dotneticated.com "Michael" wrote in message news:79B673EC-503D-4E81-85CD-BDB9360DF327@microsoft.com... > Is there a way to create a shareable web setup project template. I notice > you > can export any other project as a project template, but i notice it's not > picking up any deploy project types. We would like to have a baseline web > setup project template so that our developers could use when creating a > msi > package. This web setup project template would have some custom actions > that > would be referenced in the setup. > > Any ideas on how to do this?? > > Thanks in advance