How to add and edit item into the Welcome drop-down menu in Sharepoint 2010

In this blog, we learn about how to add and edit item into the Welcome drop-down menu in Sharepoint 2010.

To add item into the Welcome drop-down menu follow below steps:

1.     Create an Empty SharePoint Project

2.     Updating the Solution Feature

3.     Create an Element : for that we need to create an element to attach to our feature, to do that right-click on the project and add a new item, then choose "Empty Element".

4.     Edit our element to reflect what we needed.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">

  <CustomAction

        Id ="CustomMenu_MyProfile"

        GroupId="PersonalActions"

        Location="Microsoft.SharePoint.StandardMenu"

        Sequence="1000"

        Title="My Profile"

        Description="View and Update my Information" 

        ImageUrl="_layouts/images/MyProfile.gif">

    <UrlAction Url="/SitePages/My%20Profile.aspx"/>

  </CustomAction>

</Elements>

5.     Package your Sharepoint Solution

6.     Add and Install your Solution to Sharepoint

7.     Now our menu item is ready, check it out

Product applies to:

SharePoint Server 2010

      SharePoint Foundation 2010