Adding custom menu Item in Welcome Menu of SharePoint 2010

In this post i m going to add my custom menu in SharePoint 2010 Welcome Menu block .You can see default options which i have in my site's welcome menu block.  



Steps to add new menu item in welcome menu :


1.Open Visual Studio as administrator.

2.Create a new Empty SharePoint project.

3.Select for farm solution deployment

4.Add new feature to solution

5.Click on add new item

6.Select empty Element and rename it.

7.Write the below code in Element.xml file

<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
  <CustomAction
   
  Id="myCustomAction"
 
  GroupId="PersonalActions"
 
  Location="Microsoft.SharePoint.StandardMenu"
 
  Sequence="1000"
 
  ImageUrl="/images/changepassword.png"
 
  Title="Change Password"
   
  Description="Change your password from here">
   
  <UrlAction Url="/Pages/changepassword.aspx"/>
    
  </CustomAction>
 
</Elements>

9.Deploy the solution

10.Refresh page and click on welcome menu , you can see your newly added menu item