Tag Archives: Content Types

Field Order for External Content Type

Working with external content types isn’t as straight forward as it should be, especially within a Visual Studio project. Take trying to define the display order of your columns as an example. You define your task entity by adding your … Continue reading

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External Content Type Walkthrough

Looking to design your own external content type and deploy it as part of a SharePoint solution? Read on for a walkthrough on how to create one. First up, the steps are the same for SharePoint 2010 and 2013 and … Continue reading

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Content Type XML Document

Over the past few months, I’ve been surprised by the number of people I’ve spoken with who were not aware that it’s possible to store custom XML documents against content type objects through the API. These are people who have … Continue reading

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