Open Visual Studio 2010 => Select File => New => Project.

Select the Visual C# => SharePoint 2010 => List Definition project template.

Enter "MyList" in the Name textbox and click on OK.

In the SharePoint Configuration Wizard select "Deploy as farm solution" and click on "Next". 

Enter "MyList" in the What is the display name of the list definition? Textbox.

Select "Custom List" in the What is the type of the list definition? Drop-down box.

In the Solution Explorer, expand ListInstance1 and open the Elements.xml file:

Within the ListInstance element change:
      the Title attributes to MyList and change the TemplateType attribute to 10001.

<?xml version="1.0"encoding="utf-8"?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
  <ListInstance Title="MyList"
                OnQuickLaunch="TRUE"
                TemplateType="10001"
                Url="Lists/MyList-ListInstance1"
                Description="My List Instance">
  </ListInstance>
</Elements> 

Now, open the Elements.xml file which is on the same level as ListDefinition1.
Within the ListTemplate element, change the Type attribute to “10001” and add the DisallowContentTypes= ”FALSE” attribute, as shown below:

<?xml version="1.0"encoding="utf-8"?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
    <!-- Do not change the value of the Name attribute below.
If it does not match the folder name of the List Definition project item, an
error will occur when the project is run. -->
    <ListTemplate
        Name="ListDefinition1"
        Type="10001"
        BaseType="0"
        DisallowContentTypes="FALSE"
        OnQuickLaunch="TRUE"
        SecurityBits="11"
        Sequence="410"
        DisplayName="MyList"
        Description="My List Definition"
        Image="/_layouts/images/itgen.png"/>
</Elements>

Insert the following XML into the top of the Element element in the Elements.xml file. This XML describes the MyList Item content type the list will store.

<ContentType
      ID="0x010089E3E6DB8C9B4B3FBB980447E313CE94"
      Name="My List"
      Group="Custom Content Types"
      Description="My List content type."
      Version="0">
      <FieldRefs>
        <FieldRef ID="{fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-b863-0177e6ddd247}" />
        <FieldRef ID="{cb55bba1-81a9-47b6-8e6c-6a7da1d25602}" />
        <FieldRef ID="{0248c82f-9136-4b3a-b802-d0b77280b3bc}" />
        <FieldRef ID="{aa4a82dd-5b32-4507-9874-4e1c7bca3279}" />
      </FieldRefs>
</ContentType>

Insert the following XML into the top of the Elements element in the Elements.xml file. This XML describes the Fields the MyList Item content type uses.

<Field Type="Note"DisplayName="Title"Required="FALSE"NumLines="6"RichText="FALSE"Sortable="FALSE"ID="{fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-b863-0177e6ddd247}"StaticName="Title"Name="Title"Group="Custom Columns" />
 
  <Field Type="Note" DisplayName="ID" Required="FALSE" NumLines="6" RichText="FALSE" Sortable="FALSE" ID="{cb55bba1-81a9-47b6-8e6c-6a7da1d25602}"StaticName="ID"Name="ID"Group="Custom Columns" />
 
  <Field Type="Text" DisplayName="Name" Required="FALSE" MaxLength="255" ID="{0248c82f-9136-4b3a-b802-d0b77280b3bc}"StaticName="Name"Name="Name"Group="Custom Columns" />
 
  <Field Type="Text" DisplayName="Course" Required="FALSE" MaxLength="255" ID="{aa4a82dd-5b32-4507-9874-4e1c7bca3279}"StaticName="Course"Name="Course"Group="Custom Columns" />

In the Solution Explorer, open Schema.xml

Add the EnableContentTypes=”TRUE” attribute to the List element inside of the Schema.xml file

<List xmlns:ows="Microsoft SharePoint"EnableContentTypes="TRUE"Title="MyList" 

                       FolderCreation="FALSE"Direction="$Resources:Direction;" 

                                 Url="Lists/MyList-ListDefinition1"BaseType="0" 

                               xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
                       FolderCreation="FALSE"Direction="$Resources:Direction;" 
                                 
                                 Url="Lists/MyList-ListDefinition1"BaseType="0" 
                               
                               xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">

 Insert the following XML into the ContentTypes element in the schema.xml file. This XML describes the MyList Item content type this list will store.

          <ContentTypeRef ID="0x010089E3E6DB8C9B4B3FBB980447E313CE94" />

<ContentTypes>
      <ContentTypeRef ID="0x010089E3E6DB8C9B4B3FBB980447E313CE94" />
      <ContentTypeRef ID="0x01">
        <Folder TargetName="Item" />
      </ContentTypeRef>
      <ContentTypeRef ID="0x0120" />
</ContentTypes>

 Insert the following XML into the Fields element. This XML describes the fields the list will store. These are directly related to the fields in the Content-Type we added in the previous step.

<Fields>
 
      <Field Type="Note" DisplayName="Title" Required="FALSE" NumLines="6" 

RichText="FALSE" Sortable="FALSE" ID="{fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-b863-0177e6ddd247}"StaticName="Title"Name="Title"Group="Custom Columns" />
 
      <Field Type="Note" DisplayName="ID" Required="FALSE" NumLines="6" RichText="FALSE" Sortable="FALSE" ID="{cb55bba1-81a9-47b6-8e6c-6a7da1d25602}"StaticName="ID"Name="ID"Group="Custom Columns" />
 
      <Field Type="Text" DisplayName="Name" Required="FALSE" MaxLength="255" ID="{0248c82f-9136-4b3a-b802-d0b77280b3bc}"StaticName="Name"Name="Name"Group="Custom Columns" />
 
      <Field Type="Text" DisplayName="Course" Required="FALSE" MaxLength="255" ID="{aa4a82dd-5b32-4507-9874-4e1c7bca3279}"StaticName="Course"Name="Course"Group="Custom Columns" />
 
    </Fields>

 Insert the following XML into the ViewFields element in the 2nd view, BaseViewID="1":

<ViewFields>
          <FieldRef Name="Attachments"></FieldRef>
          <FieldRef Name="LinkTitle"></FieldRef>
          <FieldRef Name="Title"></FieldRef>
          <FieldRef Name="ID"></FieldRef>
          <FieldRef Name="Name"></FieldRef>
          <FieldRef Name="Course"></FieldRef>
</ViewFields>

 Right-click on the project and select Deploy:

After deploying a List Definition, check this list in the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration:

Go to Site Action à More Options…

You can see that your MyList template is created in the Installed Items template:

Thanks for reading this article. I think this will help you a lot.