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Hello all...

I have successfully created a custom field type and deployed that to my SharePoint site. Now I want to create a custom content type and use that custom field I created earlier in my content type.

What is the preferred way of doing just that?

I'm creating a solution using STSDEV 1.3 Simple Feature Solution. And everything is working great. I'm able to create the content type with base type field like Choice and Text but I would like to use my custom field as well.

Best regards,
Sigurbjorn

SPContentType contentType=<your content type> ;

SPField field= web.Fields["License"]; //use your fields storage and field name . License is my custom field deployed to site

if (contentType.FieldLinks[field.Id] == null) //Check if field already exist

{
    contentType.FieldLinks.Add(new SPFieldLink(field));
    contentType.Update();
 }

Thanks,

Alex 

Thanks for that Alex, I will certainly consider your solution. But I'm trying to reference my custom field in the content type definition file.

I'll post back if I will have a break through.

Thanks,
Sigurbjorn

Ok I got it... It was just a silly bug or something. (I will not blaim STSDEV for this though!)

So I define my Content Type using  the definition xml file as usually. Add a FieldRef and link that to the Field element and in the Type attribute I but the name of my custom field type.

[FieldRef ID="{GUID}" Name="MyField" /]
...
[Field Type="MyCustomField" ... /]

The bug was that I used DebugDeploy or DebugReDeploy but somehow I needed to go in and manually deactivate the Feature and then re-activate it. Don't know if this is a bug or just some strange things in my setup.

Thanks,
Sigurbjorn

Yes, I have same problem with STSDEV so now I completely delete feature and deploy again when using STSDEV.

Thanks,

Alex