SharePoint 2010 Programmatically Create List from Custom List Template in C#

Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:15:07 +0000

Yep - tech 2010! Continuing my tour of strange facets of old SharePoint technology, here’s something new I tried to do today that took a lot more effort than it should.

The objective was simple: create a new list, based on an existing list.

This is reasonably easy to do using List Templates… when you know how of course.

So the steps are:

Save a copy of your current list as a template
Create a new list based on that template.

The main issue is the way SP stores the custom list template when you’ve created it.

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SharePoint 2010 Programmatically Create List from Custom List Template in C#