British pound Sterling sign (£) in xml causes error

British pound Sterling sign (£) in xml causing an error? Try this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 

Using a custom task list template for a Workflow task list

In Visual Studio I created a custom content type, a custom task list template and a custom list instance using the template, but couldn't get this list to appear in the task list when trying to add a new Workflow in the SharePoint UI.

The problem turned out to be my use of the wrong value for the 'Type' attribute of the <ListTemplate> element in my list definition. When creating a workflow you are only able to select task lists with Type="107". The Elements.xml file should look some like this:

<ListTemplate
        Name="CustomTasks"
        Type="107"
        BaseType="0"
        OnQuickLaunch="TRUE"
        SecurityBits="11"
        Sequence="360"
        DisplayName="Custom Tasks"
        Description="Custom Tasks"
        Image="/_layouts/images/ittask.png"/>

SharePoint base content type ID list

Name	ID
System	0x
Item	0x01
Document	0x0101
Event	0x0102
Issue	0x0103
Announcement	0x0104
Link	0x0105
Contact	0x0106
Message	0x0107
Task	0x0108
Workflow History	0x0109
Post	0x0110
Comment	0x0111
East Asia Contact	0x0116
Folder	0x0120

Specifying a namespace in SPMetal generated entities files

Today I generated two entities.cs files using SPMetal without specifying namespaces, and was met with a whole host of ambiguity errors, such as

Ambiguity between 'Item._entityState' and 'Item._entityState'

Deleting my files and re-running SPMetal, this time specifying different namespaces for each file, resolved the problem:

SPMetal /web:http://mysite/myweb /code:C:\Projects\MyProject\MyEntities.cs /namespace:MyExampleNamespace