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Using the CloudFormation Template Editor for Visual Studio

The Toolkit for Visual Studio includes an CloudFormation template editor and CloudFormation template projects for Visual Studio. The supported features include:

  • Creating new templates (either empty or copied from an existing stack or sample template) using the supplied CloudFormation template project type.

  • Editing templates with automatic JSON validation, auto-completion, code folding, and syntax highlighting.

  • Automatic suggestion of intrinsic functions and resource reference parameters for the field values in your template.

  • Menu items to perform common actions for your template from Visual Studio.

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