Conventions Used in This Book

---

This book uses several conventions to help you prioritize and reference the information it contains:

• Tips highlight information that can make your C# programming more effective.

• Cautions focus your attention on problems or side effects that can occur in specific situations.

• Notes provide useful sidebar information that you can read immediately or circle back to without losing the flow of the topic at hand.

In addition, this book uses various typefaces to help you distinguish code from regular English. Code is presented in a monospace font. Placeholders words or characters used temporarily to represent the real words or characters you would type in code are typeset in italic monospace.

Some code statements presented in this book are too long to appear on a single line. In these cases, a line-continuation character is used to indicate that the following line is a continuation of the current statement.

---

Top