You would not believe how often I have to set up identity enabled web sites: for verifying a theory, for proving a point with colleagues, for demos and events... really really often. Vast majority of cases those are barely proofs of concept, nothing elaborated, so I've been working for reducing the overhead that every project entails. Needless to say, Zermatt has been a miracle balm for this: instead of cut&paste reuse, I finally have a tool with most of the capabilities I need few intellisense steps away. However my laziness knows no boundaries, so I came out with something that's even faster: a Visual Studio template for web sites, which sets up the few knobs that Zermatt needs directly at project creation time. Oh, don't expect anything fancy: this is basically the RP project I walked you through few posts ago . The only difference is that instead of adding references, creating pages, dragging controls and working with the web.config the template itself takes care of that. I am providing the template as attachment to this post : you can just drop the ZIP it in C:\Users\<your user>\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual Web Developer (or equivalent, if you use another disk/OS) and next time you'll create a new web site with Visual Studio you'll find it under "My Templates" as shown below. Now. ALL possible disclaimers apply for this template, the web site produced is just an example and lacks A LOT of key capabilities that should instead be
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