SharePoint Content Type Cheat Sheet

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SharePoint 2010

Principle

Any application or solution built in SharePoint must use a custom content type over adding columns to lists. The only exception to this is one-off solutions that have no life-cycle, proof-of-concepts, etc.

Creating Content Types

Web UI. Not portable, POC only
C# or Declarative (XML). Must deploy these as Features

Rule

Do not chagne the base XML for a Content Type after deploying. The only exception to this rule is that you can re-deploy a modified Content Type definition only after completely removing it from the environment (either programatically or by hand).

Updating Content Types

Update and push down to child types

Web UI. Manual for each environment. Document steps required for repeatability.
Feature Upgrade. Preferred solution.
C#. If you created the content type through code you might want to go this route.

Create new modified Content Types and hide the old one. Not recommended but useful for legacy.

References

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