diff --git a/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/AppConfig/Template/AppConfig.vstemplate b/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/AppConfig/Template/AppConfig.vstemplate
index 082fe476b5596d2a8b6547a5de8034666ab3f745..2a111cf515b80e67ff54c7dc16b9d78650bb48b8 100644
--- a/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/AppConfig/Template/AppConfig.vstemplate
+++ b/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/AppConfig/Template/AppConfig.vstemplate
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
     <Icon Package="{91A04A73-4F2C-4E7C-AD38-C1A68E7DA05C}" ID="4010" />
     <TemplateID>Microsoft.FSharp.AppConfig</TemplateID>
     <ProjectType>FSharp</ProjectType>
+    <SortOrder>60</SortOrder>
     <NumberOfParentCategoriesToRollUp>1</NumberOfParentCategoriesToRollUp>
     <DefaultName>App.config</DefaultName>
   </TemplateData>
diff --git a/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/ResourceFile/ResourceFile.csproj b/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/ResourceFile/ResourceFile.csproj
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..23e58c0e5f987034a047854d73e6eae906dcb3c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/ResourceFile/ResourceFile.csproj
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All Rights Reserved.  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.  See License.txt in the project root for license information. -->
+<Project ToolsVersion="15.0" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
+  <PropertyGroup>
+    <FSharpSourcesRoot>$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\..\..\..\src</FSharpSourcesRoot>
+    <AssemblyName>ResourceFile</AssemblyName>
+    <TemplateCategory>ItemTemplates</TemplateCategory>
+    <IsPackage>true</IsPackage>
+    <GenerateLocalizedTemplates>true</GenerateLocalizedTemplates>
+    <VSToolsPath Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' == ''">$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)</VSToolsPath>
+    <GeneratePkgDefFile>false</GeneratePkgDefFile>
+    <IncludeAssemblyInVSIXContainer>false</IncludeAssemblyInVSIXContainer>
+    <IncludeDebugSymbolsInVSIXContainer>false</IncludeDebugSymbolsInVSIXContainer>
+    <IncludeDebugSymbolsInLocalVSIXDeployment>false</IncludeDebugSymbolsInLocalVSIXDeployment>
+    <CreateVsixContainer>false</CreateVsixContainer>
+    <DeployExtension>false</DeployExtension>
+    <DeployVSTemplates>false</DeployVSTemplates>
+    <CopyVsixManifestToOutput>false</CopyVsixManifestToOutput>
+    <CopyBuildOutputToOutputDirectory>false</CopyBuildOutputToOutputDirectory>
+    <CopyOutputSymbolsToOutputDirectory>false</CopyOutputSymbolsToOutputDirectory>
+    <ProjectGuid>{0385564F-07B4-4264-AB8A-17C393E9140C}</ProjectGuid>
+  </PropertyGroup>
+
+  <PropertyGroup>
+    <Configuration Condition="'$(Configuration)' == ''">Debug</Configuration>
+    <TargetDotnetProfile Condition="'$(TargetDotnetProfile)' == ''">net40</TargetDotnetProfile>
+    <OutputPath>$(FSharpSourcesRoot)\..\$(Configuration)\$(TargetDotnetProfile)\bin\$(TemplateCategory)\$(AssemblyName)</OutputPath>
+  </PropertyGroup>
+  
+  <Import Project="$(FSharpSourcesRoot)\..\vsintegration\src\FSharp.Common.props" />
+  
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <VSTemplate Include="Template\Resource.vstemplate" />
+  </ItemGroup>
+  
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <TemplateFiles Include="Template\Resource.resx" />
+    <TemplateFiles Include="Template\Resource.vstemplate" />
+  </ItemGroup>
+  
+  <Import Project="$(FSharpSourcesRoot)\..\vsintegration\src\FSharp.tools.targets" />
+  <Import Project="$(FSharpSourcesRoot)\Microbuild.Settings.targets" />
+  
+  <Target Name="CoreCompile" />
+  
+  <Target Name="CopyFilesToOutputDirectory" AfterTargets="CoreCompile">
+    <Copy SourceFiles="@(TemplateFiles)" DestinationFiles="@(TemplateFiles->'$(OutDir)$(TemplateCategory)\$(AssemblyName)\%(Filename)%(Extension)')" />
+  </Target>
+</Project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/ResourceFile/Template/Resource.resX b/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/ResourceFile/Template/Resource.resX
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e409bf737cc49d8adfb8c9532acef06d7671ba2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/ResourceFile/Template/Resource.resX
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<root>
+  <!-- 
+    Microsoft ResX Schema
+
+    Version 1.3
+
+    The primary goals of this format is to allow a simple XML format 
+    that is mostly human readable. The generation and parsing of the 
+    various data types are done through the TypeConverter classes 
+    associated with the data types.
+
+    Example:
+    ... ado.net/XML headers & schema ...
+
+    <resheader name="resmimetype">text/microsoft-resx</resheader>
+    <resheader name="version">1.3</resheader>
+    <resheader name="reader">System.Resources.ResXResourceReader, System.Windows.Forms, ...</resheader>
+    <resheader name="writer">System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, ...</resheader>
+    <data name="Name1">this is my long string</data>
+    <data name="Color1" type="System.Drawing.Color, System.Drawing">Blue</data>
+    <data name="Bitmap1" mimetype="application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64">
+      [base64 mime encoded serialized .NET Framework object]
+    </data>
+    <data name="Icon1" type="System.Drawing.Icon, System.Drawing" mimetype="application/x-microsoft.net.object.bytearray.base64">
+      [base64 mime encoded string representing a byte array form of the .NET Framework object]
+    </data>
+
+    There are any number of "resheader" rows that contain simple 
+    name/value pairs.
+
+    Each data row contains a name, and value. The row also contains a 
+    type or mimetype. Type corresponds to a .NET class that support 
+    text/value conversion through the TypeConverter architecture. 
+    Classes that don't support this are serialized and stored with the 
+    mimetype set.
+
+    The mimetype is used for serialized objects, and tells the 
+    ResXResourceReader how to depersist the object. This is currently not 
+    extensible. For a given mimetype the value must be set accordingly:
+
+    Note - application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64 is the format 
+    that the ResXResourceWriter will generate, however the reader can 
+    read any of the formats listed below.
+
+    mimetype: application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64
+    value   : The object must be serialized with 
+            : System.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter
+            : and then encoded with base64 encoding.
+
+    mimetype: application/x-microsoft.net.object.soap.base64
+    value   : The object must be serialized with 
+            : System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter
+            : and then encoded with base64 encoding.
+
+    mimetype: application/x-microsoft.net.object.bytearray.base64
+    value   : The object must be serialized into a byte array 
+            : using a System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter
+            : and then encoded with base64 encoding.
+  -->
+  
+  <xsd:schema id="root" xmlns="" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
+    <xsd:element name="root" msdata:IsDataSet="true">
+      <xsd:complexType>
+        <xsd:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
+          <xsd:element name="data">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:sequence>
+                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
+                <xsd:element name="comment" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="2" />
+              </xsd:sequence>
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" msdata:Ordinal="3" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" msdata:Ordinal="4" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+          <xsd:element name="resheader">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:sequence>
+                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
+              </xsd:sequence>
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+        </xsd:choice>
+      </xsd:complexType>
+    </xsd:element>
+  </xsd:schema>
+  <resheader name="resmimetype">
+    <value>text/microsoft-resx</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <resheader name="version">
+    <value>1.3</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <resheader name="reader">
+    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceReader, System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.3500.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <resheader name="writer">
+    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.3500.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
+  </resheader>
+</root>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/ResourceFile/Template/Resource.vstemplate b/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/ResourceFile/Template/Resource.vstemplate
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..380262f63d0439c7d8d17558aca9533628205fc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/ResourceFile/Template/Resource.vstemplate
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<VSTemplate Version="3.0.0" Type="Item" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/vstemplate/2005">
+  <TemplateData>
+    <Name Package="{91A04A73-4F2C-4E7C-AD38-C1A68E7DA05C}" ID="5053" />
+    <Description Package="{91A04A73-4F2C-4E7C-AD38-C1A68E7DA05C}" ID="5054" />
+    <Icon Package="{91A04A73-4F2C-4E7C-AD38-C1A68E7DA05C}" ID="4017" />
+    <TemplateID>Microsoft.FSharp.Resource</TemplateID>
+    <ProjectType>FSharp</ProjectType>
+    <SortOrder>40</SortOrder>
+    <NumberOfParentCategoriesToRollUp>1</NumberOfParentCategoriesToRollUp>
+    <DefaultName>Resource.resx</DefaultName>
+  </TemplateData>
+  <TemplateContent>
+    <ProjectItem OpenInEditor="false">Resource.resx</ProjectItem>
+    <CustomParameters>
+      <CustomParameter Name="$itemproperties$" Value="CustomTool" />
+      <CustomParameter Name="$CustomTool$" Value="ResXFileCodeGenerator" />
+    </CustomParameters>
+  </TemplateContent>
+  <WizardExtension>
+    <Assembly>Microsoft.VisualStudio.Editors, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=Neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a</Assembly>
+    <FullClassName>Microsoft.VisualStudio.Editors.ResourceEditor.ResxItemWizard</FullClassName>
+  </WizardExtension>
+</VSTemplate>
diff --git a/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/ScriptFile/Template/ScriptFile.vstemplate b/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/ScriptFile/Template/ScriptFile.vstemplate
index bbfcc7f0d3b3ad51a7322992b5a93eb4a280fa3b..00a0283257fbe3ce3a8b172970fac143c3a667c0 100644
--- a/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/ScriptFile/Template/ScriptFile.vstemplate
+++ b/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/ScriptFile/Template/ScriptFile.vstemplate
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <Icon Package="{91A04A73-4F2C-4E7C-AD38-C1A68E7DA05C}" ID="4006" />
     <TemplateID>Microsoft.FSharp.ScriptFile</TemplateID>
     <ProjectType>FSharp</ProjectType>
-    <SortOrder>30</SortOrder>
+    <SortOrder>20</SortOrder>
     <NumberOfParentCategoriesToRollUp>1</NumberOfParentCategoriesToRollUp>
     <DefaultName>Script.fsx</DefaultName>
   </TemplateData>
diff --git a/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/SignatureFile/Template/SignatureFile.vstemplate b/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/SignatureFile/Template/SignatureFile.vstemplate
index 83b72d1ce2019189ba21267c32f4278b5c5caeaf..e60d70a3a5ae6b82035db7de7017d03daba67ba2 100644
--- a/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/SignatureFile/Template/SignatureFile.vstemplate
+++ b/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/SignatureFile/Template/SignatureFile.vstemplate
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <Icon Package="{91A04A73-4F2C-4E7C-AD38-C1A68E7DA05C}" ID="4007" />
     <TemplateID>Microsoft.FSharp.SignatureFile</TemplateID>
     <ProjectType>FSharp</ProjectType>
-    <SortOrder>50</SortOrder>
+    <SortOrder>30</SortOrder>
     <NumberOfParentCategoriesToRollUp>1</NumberOfParentCategoriesToRollUp>
     <DefaultName>File.fsi</DefaultName>
   </TemplateData>
diff --git a/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/TextFile/Template/TextFile.vstemplate b/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/TextFile/Template/TextFile.vstemplate
index a03c9478e6a049eadf14af5a3d40c2f1e2bab1a9..95ac710026873d15981101377abbc78e268b440c 100644
--- a/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/TextFile/Template/TextFile.vstemplate
+++ b/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/TextFile/Template/TextFile.vstemplate
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
     <Icon Package="{91A04A73-4F2C-4E7C-AD38-C1A68E7DA05C}" ID="4009" />
     <TemplateID>Microsoft.FSharp.TextFile</TemplateID>
     <ProjectType>FSharp</ProjectType>
+    <SortOrder>50</SortOrder>
     <NumberOfParentCategoriesToRollUp>1</NumberOfParentCategoriesToRollUp>
     <DefaultName>TextFile.txt</DefaultName>
   </TemplateData>
diff --git a/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/XMLFile/Template/XMLFile.vstemplate b/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/XMLFile/Template/XMLFile.vstemplate
index 6ae13c4ab85c6e01cbddccf27462cbc055e8a607..a51052e2b0b9d87a8f778b4d0e6f296b76c595a9 100644
--- a/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/XMLFile/Template/XMLFile.vstemplate
+++ b/vsintegration/ItemTemplates/XMLFile/Template/XMLFile.vstemplate
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
     <Icon Package="{91A04A73-4F2C-4E7C-AD38-C1A68E7DA05C}" ID="4011" />
     <TemplateID>Microsoft.FSharp.XMLFile</TemplateID>
     <ProjectType>FSharp</ProjectType>
+    <SortOrder>70</SortOrder>
     <NumberOfParentCategoriesToRollUp>1</NumberOfParentCategoriesToRollUp>
     <DefaultName>XMLFile.xml</DefaultName>
   </TemplateData>
diff --git a/vsintegration/Vsix/VisualFSharpFull/VisualFSharpFull.csproj b/vsintegration/Vsix/VisualFSharpFull/VisualFSharpFull.csproj
index c86cbefac004738c165c5d3b5fbb927439899c04..d0e7650be10141f05ed337c2a9985085529495b8 100644
--- a/vsintegration/Vsix/VisualFSharpFull/VisualFSharpFull.csproj
+++ b/vsintegration/Vsix/VisualFSharpFull/VisualFSharpFull.csproj
@@ -223,6 +223,14 @@
       <ReferenceOutputAssembly>false</ReferenceOutputAssembly>
       <Private>True</Private>
     </ProjectReference>
+    <ProjectReference Include="$(FSharpSourcesRoot)\..\vsintegration\ItemTemplates\ResourceFile\ResourceFile.csproj">
+      <Project>{0385564F-07B4-4264-AB8A-17C393E9140C}</Project>
+      <Name>ResourceFile</Name>
+      <VSIXSubPath>ItemTemplates</VSIXSubPath>
+      <IncludeOutputGroupsInVSIX>TemplateProjectOutputGroup%3b</IncludeOutputGroupsInVSIX>
+      <ReferenceOutputAssembly>false</ReferenceOutputAssembly>
+      <Private>True</Private>
+    </ProjectReference>
     <ProjectReference Include="$(FSharpSourcesRoot)\..\vsintegration\ItemTemplates\ScriptFile\ScriptFile.csproj">
       <Project>{a333b85a-dc23-49b6-9797-b89a7951e92d}</Project>
       <Name>ScriptFile</Name>
diff --git a/vsintegration/Vsix/VisualFSharpOpenSource/VisualFSharpOpenSource.csproj b/vsintegration/Vsix/VisualFSharpOpenSource/VisualFSharpOpenSource.csproj
index d2eded9829637c5800da509d8c68d14deb64dfd4..4b88db48eaa2f838535ebc936f2444144dbf54ab 100644
--- a/vsintegration/Vsix/VisualFSharpOpenSource/VisualFSharpOpenSource.csproj
+++ b/vsintegration/Vsix/VisualFSharpOpenSource/VisualFSharpOpenSource.csproj
@@ -222,6 +222,14 @@
       <ReferenceOutputAssembly>false</ReferenceOutputAssembly>
       <Private>True</Private>
     </ProjectReference>
+    <ProjectReference Include="$(FSharpSourcesRoot)\..\vsintegration\ItemTemplates\ResourceFile\ResourceFile.csproj">
+      <Project>{0385564F-07B4-4264-AB8A-17C393E9140C}</Project>
+      <Name>ResourceFile</Name>
+      <VSIXSubPath>ItemTemplates</VSIXSubPath>
+      <IncludeOutputGroupsInVSIX>TemplateProjectOutputGroup%3b</IncludeOutputGroupsInVSIX>
+      <ReferenceOutputAssembly>false</ReferenceOutputAssembly>
+      <Private>True</Private>
+    </ProjectReference>
     <ProjectReference Include="$(FSharpSourcesRoot)\..\vsintegration\ItemTemplates\ScriptFile\ScriptFile.csproj">
       <Project>{a333b85a-dc23-49b6-9797-b89a7951e92d}</Project>
       <Name>ScriptFile</Name>
diff --git a/vsintegration/fsharp-vsintegration-item-templates-build.proj b/vsintegration/fsharp-vsintegration-item-templates-build.proj
index d15735824fa6c2f59b724070befc20c8aec7b935..9496d2cdd6edd7d9ef758434c246a16a58be021d 100644
--- a/vsintegration/fsharp-vsintegration-item-templates-build.proj
+++ b/vsintegration/fsharp-vsintegration-item-templates-build.proj
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
     <ProjectFiles Include="ItemTemplates\SignatureFile\SignatureFile.csproj" />
     <ProjectFiles Include="ItemTemplates\TextFile\TextFile.csproj" />
     <ProjectFiles Include="ItemTemplates\XMLFile\XMLFile.csproj" />
+    <ProjectFiles Include="ItemTemplates\ResourceFile\ResourceFile.csproj" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <Import Project="..\src\root.traversal.targets"/>
diff --git a/vsintegration/src/FSharp.ProjectSystem.FSharp/Resources/FSharpResources.ico b/vsintegration/src/FSharp.ProjectSystem.FSharp/Resources/FSharpResources.ico
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bc0ce79f66632c981f3d8cded1c21b182a0e12c2
Binary files /dev/null and b/vsintegration/src/FSharp.ProjectSystem.FSharp/Resources/FSharpResources.ico differ
diff --git a/vsintegration/src/FSharp.ProjectSystem.FSharp/VSPackage.resx b/vsintegration/src/FSharp.ProjectSystem.FSharp/VSPackage.resx
index fa0160256fd3a401fdee712ee5eb8489ae5a401f..22820e8f6e78a52ebf392a7e276965ee542b7494 100644
--- a/vsintegration/src/FSharp.ProjectSystem.FSharp/VSPackage.resx
+++ b/vsintegration/src/FSharp.ProjectSystem.FSharp/VSPackage.resx
@@ -275,6 +275,9 @@
   <data name="4016" type="System.Resources.ResXFileRef, System.Windows.Forms">
     <value>Resources\Data_Entity.ico;System.Drawing.Icon, System.Drawing, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a</value>
   </data>
+  <data name="4017" type="System.Resources.ResXFileRef, System.Windows.Forms">
+    <value>Resources\FSharpResources.ico;System.Drawing.Icon, System.Drawing, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a</value>
+  </data>
   <data name="4100" type="System.Resources.ResXFileRef, System.Windows.Forms">
     <value>Resources\ProjectNode.bmp;System.Drawing.Bitmap, System.Drawing, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a</value>
   </data>
@@ -437,6 +440,12 @@
   <data name="5052" xml:space="preserve">
     <value>A project for creating an F# library (.dll) that can run on .NET Framework 4.5, Windows Store, Windows Phone 8.1, Windows Phone Silverlight 8, Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS(Classic).  Profile 259</value>
   </data>
+  <data name="5053" xml:space="preserve">
+    <value>Resources File</value>
+  </data>
+  <data name="5054" xml:space="preserve">
+    <value>A file for storing resources</value>
+  </data>
   <data name="6000" xml:space="preserve">
     <value>F# Tools</value>
   </data>