How To Create An Announcement List In Sharepoint 2013 Programmatically

Manpreet Singh
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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
1. using System;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using System.Linq;
4. using System.Security;
5. using System.Net;
6. using System.Text;
7. using System.Web;
8. using System.Data;
9. using Microsoft.SharePoint;
10. using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
11. namespace ConsoleApplication1
12. {
13. class Program
14. {
15. static void Main(string[] args)
16. {
17. //get the web
18. ClientContext context = new ClientContext("http://devtest /SPTests/");
19. Web web = context.Web;
20. //provide the list creation information as Title and Description
21. ListCreationInformation createlist = new ListCreationInformation();
22. createlist.Title = "Announcements";
23. createlist.Description = "My Custom Announcements";
24. //choose a template as Generic List.
25. createlist.TemplateType = (int)ListTemplateType.Announcements;
26. //add list to SharePoint
27. web.Lists.Add(createlist);
28. context.ExecuteQuery();
29. Console.WriteLine("Announcements List Created");
30. Console.ReadKey();
31. }
32. }
33. }