How To Create An Announcement List In Sharepoint 2013 Programmatically

Welcome to a blog on how to create an announcement list in SharePoint 2013 programmatically using a console application. We will use Visual Studio to create a list in SharePoint 2013.

 

Let’s see how to do it.

• Open you Visual Studio
• Select New Project
  
   

• Select Console Application.
• Add the references
  Microsoft.SharePoint dll and Microsoft.SharePoint.Client dll
• Paste the code below under Program.cs.
  
  Code
  

  using System;
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using System.Linq;
  using System.Security;
  using System.Net;
  using System.Text;
  using System.Web;
  using System.Data;
  using Microsoft.SharePoint;
  using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
  namespace ConsoleApplication1
  {
  class Program
  {
  static void Main(string[] args)
  {
  //get the web
  ClientContext context = new ClientContext("http://devtest /SPTests/");
  Web web = context.Web;
  //provide the list creation information as Title and Description
  ListCreationInformation createlist = new ListCreationInformation();
  createlist.Title = "Announcements";
  createlist.Description = "My Custom Announcements";
  //choose a template as Generic List.
  createlist.TemplateType = (int)ListTemplateType.Announcements;
  //add list to SharePoint
  web.Lists.Add(createlist);
  context.ExecuteQuery();
  Console.WriteLine("Announcements List Created");
  Console.ReadKey();
  }
  }
  }

• Run the code and your custom announcement list will be created.
  
   

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