Creating Content Types

You can create and deploy content types throughout SharePoint Server 2007 sites in the following three ways:

  • Administrative user interface

  • SharePoint object model

  • As part of a Feature deployed to new or existing sites

This section focuses on the creation of content types through the administrative user interface. To learn more about deploying content types using the SharePoint object model, refer to the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK found at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=05E0DD12-8394-402B-8936-A07FE8AFAFFD&displaylang=en. To learn more about deploying content types using Features, refer to Chapter 26, which includes an example of creating a content type Feature and demonstrates methods by which ...

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