How to add a link under quick launch using custom actions?

Question

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/bb802730(v=office.15).aspx
Custom actions allow us to create feature to add a link under site settings, site actions menu and even central admin.
 Is there any way we can extend this feature to allow links being added under quick launch? I tried providing location Microsft.SharePoint.Navigation but that had no effect

Answer 1

hi
you don't need to use custom actions in order to add links to the quick launch menu. It allows to add links programmatically to the menu items collections directly, see e.g.
Adding Links to Quick Launch. From this link check the following example which adds an item under the Lists heading in Quick Launch.:
using System;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation;
namespace ConsoleApp
class Program
static void Main(string[] args)
using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://localhost"))
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
// Get the Links list or create it if it does not exist.
SPList list = web.Lists.TryGetList("Links");
if (list == null || list.BaseTemplate != SPListTemplateType.Links)
// Create the list.
Guid listId = web.Lists.Add("Links", "Interesting hyperlinks", SPListTemplateType.Links);
list = web.Lists.GetList(listId, false);
// Check for an existing link to the list.
SPNavigationNode listNode = web.Navigation.GetNodeByUrl(list.DefaultViewUrl);
// No link, so create one.
if (listNode == null)
// Create the node.
listNode = new SPNavigationNode(list.Title, list.DefaultViewUrl);
// Add it to Quick Launch.
listNode = web.Navigation.AddToQuickLaunch(listNode, SPQuickLaunchHeading.Lists);
Console.Write("\nPress ENTER to continue....");
Console.ReadLine();
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