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:
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Creating new templates (either empty or copied from an existing stack or sample template) using the supplied CloudFormation template project type.
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Editing templates with automatic JSON validation, auto-completion, code folding, and syntax highlighting.
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Automatic suggestion of intrinsic functions and resource reference parameters for the field values in your template.
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Menu items to perform common actions for your template from Visual Studio.
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