As promised at Office DevCon, I would release Content Type Toolbar v1.2. Download [Here].
The Content Type Toolbar is a simple add-on that will enhance the use of SharePoint Content Types in large deployments.
The use of content types in SharePoint 2007 has a number of benefits and businesses may spend a considerable amount of time planning and deploying content type to help support their business processes. Unfortunately, the default methods of using content types may not be intuitive for most users who do not have experience with SharePoint. This problem will lead to content types not being used or being neglected by the end users. This can be avoided by training your end users, but it may be sometime before all your users receive the appropriate level of training, so in the meantime the content types are still neglected.
To help resolve this issue we have created the Content Type Toolbar that will automatically inspect the content types that have been configured on a library or list. The content type toolbar will create a toolbar that displays the content types as large buttons that will enable the users to choose a content type with the click of a button.
The content type toolbar is self configuring so you will not need to adjust any properties on the web part itself. Instead all the configuration is performed through the list of library settings. As you add or remove content types from the list or library then the content type toolbar will automatically display the appropriate entries.
If you have any questions or comments, then please feel free to contact me.