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I am new to SharePoint and I have created several custom lists. I would like to use visual studio 2010 to create new EDIT/NEW/DISPLAY forms for this list. I can't seem to find anything on the internet explaining how to design these new forms with Visual Studio 2010. I would like for some guidance on how this can be done. I simply want to change the UI of the forms and make it look pretty using JQuery and that is the only purpose I have. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>


</Fields>
<Views>
  <View BaseViewID="0" Type="HTML" MobileView="TRUE" TabularView="FALSE">
    <Toolbar Type="Standard" />
    <XslLink Default="TRUE">main.xsl</XslLink>
    <RowLimit Paged="TRUE">30</RowLimit>
    <ViewFields>
      <FieldRef Name="LinkTitleNoMenu"></FieldRef>
    </ViewFields>
    <Query>
      <OrderBy>
        <FieldRef Name="Modified" Ascending="FALSE"></FieldRef>
      </OrderBy>
    </Query>
    <ParameterBindings>
      <ParameterBinding Name="AddNewAnnouncement" Location="Resource(wss,addnewitem)" />
      <ParameterBinding Name="NoAnnouncements" Location="Resource(wss,noXinviewofY_LIST)" />
      <ParameterBinding Name="NoAnnouncementsHowTo" Location="Resource(wss,noXinviewofY_ONET_HOME)" />
    </ParameterBindings>
  </View>
  <View BaseViewID="1" Type="HTML" WebPartZoneID="Main" DisplayName="$Resources:core,objectiv_schema_mwsidcamlidC24;" DefaultView="TRUE" MobileView="TRUE" MobileDefaultView="TRUE" SetupPath="pages\viewpage.aspx" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/generic.png" Url="AllItems.aspx">
    <Toolbar Type="Standard" />
    <XslLink Default="TRUE">main.xsl</XslLink>
    <RowLimit Paged="TRUE">30</RowLimit>
    <ViewFields>
      <FieldRef Name="Attachments"></FieldRef>
      <FieldRef Name="LinkTitle"></FieldRef>
    </ViewFields>
    <Query>
      <OrderBy>
        <FieldRef Name="ID"></FieldRef>
      </OrderBy>
    </Query>
    <ParameterBindings>
      <ParameterBinding Name="NoAnnouncements" Location="Resource(wss,noXinviewofY_LIST)" />
      <ParameterBinding Name="NoAnnouncementsHowTo" Location="Resource(wss,noXinviewofY_DEFAULT)" />
    </ParameterBindings>
  </View>
</Views>
<Forms>
  <Form Type="DisplayForm" Url="DispForm.aspx" SetupPath="pages\form.aspx" WebPartZoneID="Main" />
  <Form Type="EditForm" Url="EditForm.aspx" SetupPath="pages\form.aspx" WebPartZoneID="Main" />
  <Form Type="NewForm" Url="NewForm.aspx" SetupPath="pages\form.aspx" WebPartZoneID="Main" />
</Forms>

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Have you seen sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/7417/… ? – eirikb Sep 26 '12 at 19:00
Yeah I actually came across this post several times and I am having a hard time trying to perform the same actions. I simply would like to create new forms for the custom list definition I created In VS2010. Are there any standard documentation explaining the correct "non-hack" way of creating forms. – Joseph D Surgeon Sep 26 '12 at 19:12
To make it real simple. I would like a tutorial that can show me how to create a list definition with all views from within Visual Studio without copying and pasting generated code. I know there is a formal way on how to do custom lists and forms from vs2010 without "hacks" – Joseph D Surgeon Sep 26 '12 at 19:55

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There are Two ways u set your application page as List Default New/Edit/Display Form.

  1. Check This http://ikarstein.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/walkthrough-create-custom-sharepoint-2010-list-form-for-deployment-in-a-visual-studio-2010-project/

  2. also in schema of your custom list definition add this after FieldRefs

     <XmlDocuments>
<XmlDocument NamespaceURI="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3/contenttype/forms">
  <FormTemplates xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3/contenttype/forms">
    <Display>ListForm</Display>
    <Edit>ListForm</Edit>
    <New>ListForm</New>
  </FormTemplates>
</XmlDocument>
<XmlDocument NamespaceURI="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3/contenttype/forms/url">
  <FormUrls xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3/contenttype/forms/url">
    <Edit>HERE IS THE URL OF YOUR CUSTOM PAGE</Edit>            
  </FormUrls>
</XmlDocument>
 </XmlDocuments>
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That was all I needed one more question under the <FormTemplates> node do I specify just the name of the form. and then it uses the FormUrls tag to reference the actual form. Could you post an example of those tabs populated. I really appreciate your help and I will mark your answer as the answer because it answered my question. – Joseph D Surgeon Sep 27 '12 at 17:13
Here is my list schema here I don't see how to implement your code. – Joseph D Surgeon Sep 27 '12 at 18:29
see This screencast.com/t/Tr5shVtu5ZVv – Vishal_Sharepoint Sep 28 '12 at 5:07
Does that go into the Schema file. I see field references under the content type node. But in schema there is a <Fields> and a <ViewFields> node so when I add my content type to the schema should it have field references also. What about the <Forms> tag should this be deleted – Joseph D Surgeon Sep 28 '12 at 13:03
Thank you once again you are really helping me grasp this I am new to sharepoint but not .NEt – Joseph D Surgeon Sep 28 '12 at 13:04
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