How to unpublish a content type in SharePoint 2010

In this article we will be seeing how to unpublish a content type in SharePoint 2010.

In this article we will be seeing the following:

UnPublish a content type using console application
UnPublish a content type using powershell script

Steps Involved:

Open visual studio 2010.
Create a new console application.
Add the following references.
- Microsoft.SharePoint.dll
- Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.dll
Add the following namespaces.
- Using Microsoft.SharePoint;
- Using Microsoft.Sharepoint.Taxonomy.ContentTypeSync;

UnPublish a content type using console application:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.ContentTypeSync;

namespace EMM
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://servername:10/"))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.RootWeb)
{
SPContentType contentType = web.ContentTypes["_bContentType"];
if (ContentTypePublisher.IsContentTypeSharingEnabled(site))
{
ContentTypePublisher ctPublisher = new ContentTypePublisher(site);
ctPublisher.UnPublish(contentType);
Console.WriteLine(contentType.Name + " is unpublished successfully");
Console.ReadLine();
}

}
}
}
}
}

Go to Site Actions=> Site Settings => Galleries => Site Content Types => Manage publishing for the content type.

You could see the content type is unpublished successfully.

Publish a content type using powershell script:

$hubSite=Get-SPSite "http://servername:10/"
$hubWeb=$hubSite.RootWeb
$contentType=$hubWeb.ContentTypes["_bContentType"]
$ctPublisher=New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.ContentTypeSync.ContentTypePublisher($hubSite)
$ctPublisher.UnPublish($contentType)