Import&Export Sharepoint Lists / Deploy this with VS2010

Question

I created a webpart which grabs content of two Lists in Sharepoint, is used as source. Its working very well and i like the way users can change content. Is there an way to export my list-schema+content and deploy it somewhere else? I already searched for that on google but it seems nobody used lists as webpart-source before... I know that i could handcode the two lists with c# but thats way to mutch work in this case...

Thank you

Sven

Answer 1

Go to list configuration page, save list as a template, check include content and you will have a list template you can use everytime you want to create a new list.

If you want to create a new list in another site collection, go to list templates gallery, select the template you just created and save it to your computer. Then go to the other site collection and import it.