First character SharePoint 2010 internal field name replaced with its hexadecimal code

Hi All,

I have created few site columns and created site content type from that columns and attached it to my SharePoint list.

Now when I was trying to access some column via object model code its was giving me an error saying that column doesn't exists.

By looking at the column internal name I found that the first character of column name was replaced with some hexadecimal code. :(

Spending some hours on that I found that SharePoint requires first 4 characters of the internale name have to be non numeric.

Creating column with first four characters as non numeric resolves the issue.


Thanks,
Sachin K.