How to create SharePoint list with custom template using Managed Client Object Model?

Question

Creating lists in SharePoint using Managed Client Object Model is rather easy task. Here's how to create a list with SharePoint's custom list template:

ListCreationInformation lci;
List list;

lci = new ListCreationInformation();
lci.Title = title;
lci.Description = description;
lci.TemplateType = (int)ListTemplateType.GenericList;
list = clientContext.Web.Lists.Add(lci);
clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

But what happens if I don't what to use any of the default ListTemplateType templates? What if I have created my own list template and I want to use it in the code to create lists based on it? Please help, thanks.

Answer 1

I cannot test this because I dont have a dev environment at the moment, but the following should work:

            ListCreationInformation lci;
            List list;

            lci = new ListCreationInformation();
            lci.Title = title;
            lci.Description = description;


            ListTemplate lt = ClientContext.Current.Web.ListTemplates.First(z => z.Name == "MyTemplateName");
            lci.TemplateFeatureId = lt.FeatureId;

            list = clientContext.Web.Lists.Add(lci);
            clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

As per http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.client.listcreationinformation_members.aspx

TemplateFeatureId = Gets or sets a value that specifies the feature identifier of the feature that contains the list schema for the new list.