After you create a SharePoint document library, you can start creating document based on the default document template. If you like to add you own custom template, you can easily achieve this by creating a SharePoint solution using visual studio. In this post, I’d like to show how to add a custom document template to the SharePoint document Library. You can download the complete source code here.

1. Create Empty SharePoint solution, creating a document library called “YbbestCustomDocLib” and adding a Module with a word document template called FAX.dotx

2. Modify the Elements.xml file in the module

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3. Finally, you need to create feature receiver to configure the Document TemplateUrl property of the document library.

You can download the complete source code here.