Custom Content Type Deployment Tip for Visual Studio 2010

Scenario: You add a custom content type to your Visual Studio 2010 project. Because you have been bitten by the lowercase Content Type ID problem before (see here: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/709500/visual-studio-2010-sharepoint-project-template-content-type-generated-through-visual-studio-has-id-guid-in-lower-case-causing-custom-actions-to-fail ), you quickly turn the Content Type ID to UPPERCASE using the handing Ctrl+Shift+U shortcut. You are pretty much a shortcut badass. Visual Studio 2010 generates Content Type ID’s lowercase by default.

Visual Studio gives you:
<ContentType ID="0x010059b2dab8444144e68f7f9baaa134dbf0" …

..so then you upper-case it to:
<ContentType ID="0X010059B2DAB8444144E68F7F9BAAA134DBF0" …
…to ‘avoid’ problems.

Problem: When you try to deploy your solution, you get a ‘Value is out of range’ error. No logged info beyond that. Helpful as always.

Solution: See the ‘X’ near the beginning of the Content Type ID? It MUST be lowercase. When upper-casing it, you may accidentally uppercase that character too. This totally explodes whatever parsing is done on that ID when it is read from the schema file.

And then you fix it:
<ContentType ID="0x010059B2DAB8444144E68F7F9BAAA134DBF0" …

 

SharePoint 2013 Chrome Control Parameters List

I had a hard time Google-Binging this information – so here is what I dug directly out of the source:

Param Name	Description
siteTitle	The title of the site.
siteUrl	The url of the site. [This is easy!]
clientTag	? Tag the page ?
appWebUrl	The current app web url.
onCssLoaded	Callback function for when chrome control is done loading. [Great naming there!]
assetId	? The app’s id in the catalog ?
appStartPage	Start page of app web. Need to test this…
rightToLeft	For those languages that go against the grain.
appTitle	Title of the app. [Back to easy street!]
appIconUrl	The url of the app icon.
appTitleIconUrl	Titles need icons too.
appHelpPageUrl	The url of your very useful help page.
appHelpPageOnClick	Use this to alert(‘No help 4 U!’)
settingsLinks	Array of links to put under the ‘options’ wheel.
language	¿Qué diablos?
bottomHeaderVisible	Hide the bottom header.
topHeaderVisible	Guessing this may hide the top header. Since chrome control does so much to everything in addition to the top header [sarcasm], I can see never using this option.