Hi,
Until Visual Studio 2017 there is a wizard to create new MDL project in C++ or C#. It was very useful because we do not create new project everyday and it is painful to configure accurately a new project, add references,...
It will be interresting to include in the wizard / add to the Visual configuration some snippets or small code template to do specific action : add a new command, make a scan, create a class a new locate function, create a class to create a new primitive function...any other ideas are welcome of course !