What is Content type in SharePoint 2010?

What is Content type in SharePoint 2010?

CONTENT TYPE IN SHAREPOINT 2010 : 

•  Content types are reusable component, they are not specific to any list or library or page layout.
• A Content type is a group of site columns (or metadata), workflows and other settings for the item in the list or document in document library or for SharePoint page.
• Content Type represents group of information with common properties. For example, you are maintaining group of Resume type documents and other normal documents.So you can have a separate Content Type for that Resume type documents.And separate content type for other documents. 

In simple words : 

•                    To know  extra information of  Type of the content which we upload. it is not same as file type.Its a kind of meta data. Like attaching labels to the files.
• ex-1 one file type diff content type
• a word file can have
• 1.resume 2.business data 3.Menus 4.Rules
• ex-2 same content types can have diff file types 
• business data-word file,excel file, ppt, pdf

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