A Quicker Way to Create Custom SharePoint List Templates

A Quicker Way to Create Custom SharePoint List Templates: "A Quicker Way to Create Custom SharePoint List Templates

Ever tried to create a custom list template for a SharePoint 3.0-based site? Something you thought was likely to be not such a big task quickly turned in to a nightmare of XML and GUIDs, right? Creating custom list templates is not a trivial task... nor is it a terribly good story. It's pretty darn complicated and can be quite an undertaking. In fact, last year when Rob Bogue, Paul Andrew and I were coming up with the content ideas and reviewing the labs/webcasts for the Introduction to SharePoint for ASP.NET Developers campaign, one thing Rob and I were adamant about was zero coverage of list definitions/templates and site definitions/templates. Why? The goal was to bring ASP2 developers to the platform... not send them running away! These things are nasty and scary… avoid them at all costs… unless if you simplify things…

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