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Many of you who are playing with SharePoint might have seen this error message before (:) ..."Invalid Associated Content Type". while working on one my Sharepoint Projects , i came accross this error of Invalid Associated Content Type, i first verified the Content Type that was associated with the Page layout and found everything was fine except one. The mistake i was doing was, not adding the following to within the Page Layout Content Type As soon i add the Content Type in , proper content Type's name apppears in place of (Invalid Associated Content Type).

Few days back i was exploring about new improvements and features in SharePoint 2010. I came across a very good article about setting up Managed Metadata service application here

You can easily dispaly your own HTTP 404 Page Not found Error page for each of your SharePoint Web Application. A custom Error page can be associated with each Web Application in SharePoint and you can redirect the 404 error page to your own specified error page. SharePoint has it's error Pages stored at this location: 14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\ERRORV4.html 14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\sps404.html The one we need is the sps404.html. If you open this page you will see: STSNavigate("/_layouts/spsredirect.aspx?oldurl="+ requestedurl); Here spsredirect.aspx is the Error page currently used by sharepoint. So what we need to do is, first make a copy of the sps404.html, rename it - in my case mscom404.html and save it at the same location (14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033).Now in the STSNavigate replace spsredirect.aspx with your own aspx page. The url in STSNavigate should be a properly working url, then only the redirection will work. as you can see in the code above, i'm placing my e

while working in VS2010 and creating SharePoint Content Types using CAML, i came accross an interesting issue. the issue was that when creating a content type, it was not showing up in the Site content Types page. Then after struggling a lot and almost exploring all the properties available, i found that there is a property called "Overwrite" and setting it's value to "True" i.e. Overwrite=True, makes the content type available in the Site Content Types Page.