Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook

Creating new Content Types

Now we are ready to create the schema for our Proposal Library through - a Content Type that will inherit from Document and extend it with our custom Proposal site columns. The Content Type can also have associated a Microsoft Word template file, so that as you create a "New Proposal", Microsoft Word will come up and launch with a Proposal document template, instead of simply a blank document.

Getting ready

Launch Microsoft Word and create a simple document to serve as your Proposal template. Save the file as ProposalTemplate.dotx.

How to do it...

Open the SP2010ProposalLibrary Visual Studio Solution you created in the Creating new Site Columns recipe. We must first actually take a copy of our ProposalTemplate.dotx file ...