Add the Project and Global Change Spec
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Step 1 - Get started... Add a catalog project to a solution
If you do not already have a Visual Studio solution, create one now. To create a new project in the solution, by selecting File\New\Project… from the main menu. A New Project dialog box appears. Select Blackbaud AppFx as the project type and then select Catalog Project from the list of templates.
Figure: Add a Catalog Project item to your catalog project. This creates a new project used to create a server-side catalog assembly (.dll).
Step 2 - Add a Global Change Spec (CLR) catalog item to the catalog project.
Right-click the catalog project within the Solution Explorer and select Add\New Item... from the context menu (Ctrl + Shift + A).
On the left side of the dialog window, select Blackbaud AppFx Catalog from the list of Installed Templates.
Select the Global Change Spec (CLR) catalog item and give the spec a name. I named the spec file: AddressCoordinateTimeZone.GlobalChange.xml.
Figure: Select the appropriate catalog item and providing a name for the XML spec file.
Click the Add button to add a GlobalChangeSpec XML file (catalog item) to the project along with a CLR class file.
Figure: Two new files are added to your project: a CLR class file and the XML spec file.
For more details, see Add a CLR based Global Change.