What is a Content Type?
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The Content Type system provides a flexible and powerful way of defining the Contents stored in the system. Content Types behave much like .NET Classes, implementing inheritance and a possibility to encapsulate both data representation and logic through Content Handlers.
[edit] What a Content Type consists of
- Data definition - A Content Type defines the Fields of a Content. You can think of it as a blueprint for the data representation - what needs to be stored and how.
- Inheritance - You can (and have to) specify a Parent Content Type as well. The new type will inherit all of its parent's Fields.
- Metadata - A Content Type can include a Title, Definition and Icon for itself and for each one of its fields, providing meaning for the data representation.
- Code binding - Through specifying the Content Handler to use, you can bind programmed behavior to any of your fields or to the Type as a whole.
