ContentType class

SharePoint Online

Represents a SPContentType object.

System.Object
  Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientObject
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ContentType

Namespace:  Microsoft.SharePoint.Client
Assembly:  Microsoft.SharePoint.Client (in Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll)

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This code example initializes a custom content type, adds it to the collection of content types, and displays the names of the specified website’s content types.

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using System;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;

namespace Microsoft.SDK.SharePointFoundation.Samples
{
    class ContentTypeExample
    {
        static void Main()
        {

            string siteUrl = "http://MyServer/sites/MySiteCollection";

            ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext(siteUrl);
            Web site = clientContext.Web;
            ContentTypeCollection collContentType = site.ContentTypes;

            // Initialize a new content type.
            ContentTypeCreationInformation contentInfo = new ContentTypeCreationInformation();
            contentInfo.Name = "myContentType";
            contentInfo.Description = "My custom content type";
            ContentType contentType = collContentType.Add(contentInfo);

            clientContext.Load(collContentType);
            clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

            foreach (ContentType myType in collContentType)
                Console.WriteLine("Content Type Name: {0}", myType.Name);
        }

    }
}

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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