I finally figured out that Visual Studio keeps track of how you create a project (in other words which project template you select initially) and filters your options later
In visual studio the project type is stored inside the .csproj XML file as GUID. You have to change the GUID to define the new project type you want.
check http://www.mztools.com/Articles/2008/MZ2008017.aspx for some of the availbale GUIDs