You create a bullet list template by creating an instance of the NBulletListTemplate class. For example:

// create a bullet list template
NBulletListTemplate customTemplate = new NBulletListTemplate();
            
// create a bullet list template level
NBulletListLevel bulletListLevel1 = new NBulletListLevel();
bulletListLevel1.Format = "\\0.";
customTemplate.ListLevels.Add(bulletListLevel1);

// create a bullet list that uses that template
NBulletList bulletList = new NBulletList();
bulletList.Template = customTemplate;

// add bullet list items...

This code creates a bullet list template with one level. Each bullet list template consist of one or more levels that you add to the ListLevels collection of that template. Each bullet list template level is responsible for formatting the bullets generated by bullet list items for that level. For example if you have a bullet list that contains another bullet list the bullets generated by the first one will be formatted using the properties of the first bullet list level, whereas the bullets generated by its child bullet list will be formatted using the properties of the second bullet list level.

Each bullet list template level has a property called Format which allows you to specify the text displayed by the bullets for that level. The string value you pass there can contain either plain characters or backward slash followed by level number. For example in the code above the format is set to "\0.", meaning that the formatted counter value for level 1 is followed by dot. If you create a second bullet list level it will typically use "\0.\1." and so on. In general by placing a back slash followed by level number you create a place holder for formatted counter values, which you can mix with arbitrary characters.

bulletListLevel1.Format = "\\0.";

The bullet list template level has a property called BulletType which controls how counter values are formatted for this particular level. The following table lists the available options:

The following example shows how to create a bullet list level that specifies filled circle as the bullet text:

// create a bullet list template
NBulletListTemplate customTemplate = new NBulletListTemplate();
            
// create a bullet list template level
NBulletListLevel bulletListLevel1 = new NBulletListLevel();

// set the bullet type to text and bullet text to unicode char for filled bullet circle
bulletListLevel1.BulletType = ENBulletType.Text;
bulletListLevel1.BulletText = new string((char)0x25CF, 1);
customTemplate.ListLevels.Add(bulletListLevel1);

// add the template the to the bullet list templates
someBulletList.Template = customTemplate;

 Note that the code above species a special char for the bullet text. The control provides the ENBulletChar enum which provides commonly used Unicode bullet chars:

The following code snippet shows how to use the values in this enum:

bulletListLevel1.BulletText = new string((char)ENBulletChar.TriangularBullet, 1);

The generated bullet text can optionally be followed by a space or tab character. This is controlled from the BulletFollowChar property accepting values from the ENBulletFollowChar enum:

Adding tabs that follow the bullets help to increase readability when the bullet list uses bullets embedded in paragraphs. The following code snippet shows how to create a bullet followed by a tab stop at 40 dips:

bulletListLevel1.BulletFollowChar = ENBulletFollowChar.Tab;
bulletListLevel1.TabStop = new NTabStop(40, ENTabStopAlignment.Left, ENTabStopLeaderStyle.None);