Wizard based Visual Studio project template selection

I wish to create a wizard based solution, which would allow a user to choose the type of project template he would wish to load.
In Visual Studio, for example, upon selecting a Win32 console project, the user has a chance to have MFC / ATL support, SDL support etc, or he may not.
On similar lines, I wish to provide a user the choice of selecting a 64 or 32 bit project template,with or without MFC support.
I can create a wizard for such an endeavour, and I can associate this wizard with the root project of a multi project solution, and can capture the input of the user. But how do I then select that particular project to be loaded for the user?
How does Visual Studio achieve this project selection, and what would I need to do to achieve the same?
Kindly advise. Thank you.

VC++ project system now supports the same .vstemplate based wizards, its just that they never bothered to convert the old ones, as they are rather large, and people that use them are familiar with them.
But if you poke around the ....\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\VC directory, you'll see some examples of the newer style of templates in the Phone and Store directories, which contain the newer style templates.
If you want to build a project template that allows for selecting different (or multiple) project types, I'd recommend starting with a stock project template, and then create and add a custom IWizard assembly to it (much like that walkthrough I mentioned),
then add your additional "hidden" templates. To keep the hidden templates out of the New Project dialog. Then you can programmatically add them to your solution, per whatever
the user selects, in the UI you display in your
IWizard.RunStarted implementation.
I don't have an example of this finished, but I hope to have one done here shortly. It's basically a set of templates that will generate a Project or Item Template Project, and a VSIX wizard assembly project. Essentially, it's a template that will give you
the same results if you do that walkthrough on the VSX Arcana blog I mentioned earlier. I'm in the final stages of cleaning it up, and will hopefully have it posted up on codeplex and the VSX Arcana blog later this week.
Sincerely,
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