SharePointers

Sure you can dig all over the 12 hive looking for content type IDs. In fact, you should probably do it at least once to get an idea of what SharePoint does and what files it uses, but after you've done that. Here's the easy way .

When using SharePoint sometimes you run into a URL with lots of unicode character markup. Here's a good reference so you can figure out what the h%65ck it all means.

Microsoft provides a very thorough explanation of ContentTypes here but you may be left wondering what content types you can inherit from (or more likely what are their content type IDs) so you can build off of them. Well you can always go look at them in the 'ctypes' feature folder (that's the out-of-box feature that defines the WSS content types). It's available at under your 12\TEMPLATE\Features\ctypes folder in the 'ctypeswss.xml' file. Otherwise you can just refer to this list I pulled together: 0x : System 0x01 : Item 0x0101 : Document 0x010100629D00608F814dd6AC8A86903AEE72AA : ODCDocument 0x010100B4CBD48E029A4ad8B62CB0E41868F2B0 : UDCDocument 0x010101 : XMLDocument 0x010102 : Picture 0x010104 : UntypedDocument 0x010105 : MasterPage 0x010107 : DocumentWorkflowItem 0x010108 : WikiDocument 0x010109 : BasicPage 0x01010901 : WebPartPage 0x01010A : LinkToDocument 0x01010B : DublinCoreName 0x0102 : Event 0x0103 : Issue 0x0104 : Announcement 0x0105 : Link 0...