Sharepoint Site Columns Missing in Gallery

Here is a handy snippet of information.... if you are creating Site Columns via CAML and deploying them as a feature you may find that you have deployed the feature ok but they are not showing up in the Site Columns gallery.

The answer is that you probably declared the Guid for the Id in the CAML without the {} around them. This is one of the only places in Sharepoint where this is crucial...

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Invalid FormatETC error and Sharepoint controls

There are some projects and tutorials out there that take you through creating Application pages. They take you through adding a an empty project and then referencing the Sharepoint control and then setting up the toolbos to show the Sharepoint controls... All well and good but when you go and drag a control of the toolbox and onto the page you get an error of InvalidFormatETC.

SOLUTION: Add a web.config file........... I hate all these tutorials that fail to accommodate the main reason for their existence of teaching newcomers to the technology by failing to think how somebody new to a technology would think.