http://dotnetdeveloper.co.uk/blogs/sharepoint/archive/2009/02/18/deploying-custom-lists-with-stsdev.aspxThis is only a quick and dirty post as I'm really busy atm. This is obviously the most basic tutorial explaining how to quickly and easily take your lists from within sharepoint and make them deployable (I'm using STSDEV ). Firstly create yourenCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20917.1142)