Define choices for inherited column in SharePoint list using Visual Studio

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I'm new to SharePoint development and I am trying to create a simple issue tracker for our IT team.

I'm trying to develop a sandboxed solution to deploy to SharePoint Online (O365), which contains a custom content type and list definition based on the "Issue" content type.

This all works fine, but I need to know how to modify the default status choices within my content type / list definition, and I'm not sure how to accomplish this.

The default choices are: Active/Resolved/Closed. I would like them to be: Open/Assigned/In Progress/Closed.

Please note that I understand how to change the choices in SharePoint after the list definition is deployed, but I'd like to define them within my Visual Studio project so that when I deploy the solution, the choices are already set up properly.

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Okay, so after discussing this with a friend on Facebook, I've come up with two possible solutions. 1) I could create an EventReceiver that fires when the feature is activated that will modify the "Issue Status" site column to load the desired values. or 2) I can hide the inherited site column and replace it with a custom column that contains my desired choices. Since I only want these status choices to apply to my custom content type, solution 2 makes the most sense. I'll post this as an answer when StackOverflow no longer prevents it unless I hear a better solution before then. – Eric H
Found where I can modify the choices in the schema.xml file for the list definition, which is exactly what I needed. – Eric H

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I found that I can modify the schema.xml file for the list definition and define the choices there.