Conventions

We have used a number of different styles of text and layout in this book to help differentiate between the different kinds of information. Here are examples of the styles we use and an explanation of what they mean:

Bullets appear indented, with each new bullet marked as follows:

• New and important words are in italics.

• Words that appear on the screen in menus, such as File or Window, are in a similar font to the one that you see onscreen.

• If you see something like Object, you’ll know that it’s a filename, object name, or function name.

Code in a gray box is new, important, pertinent code:

  Dim objMyClass as New MyClass("Hello World") Debug.WriteLine(objMyClass.ToString)  

Sometimes code appears in a mixture of styles, such as the following:

 Dim objVar as Object  objVar = Me CType(objVar, Form).Text = "New Dialog Title Text" 

Code with a white background is code we’ve already looked at and that we don’t wish to examine further.

Important 

Important pieces of information appear in shaded boxes like this.

Tip 

Advice, hints, and background information appear in an italicized, indented paragraph like this.