What You Need to Use This Book
What You Need to Use This Book
The code and descriptions of C# and the .NET Framework in this book apply to .NET 2.0. You don't need anything other than the Framework to understand this aspect of the book, but many of the examples require Visual Studio 2005 (VS). There is also quite a lot of explanation of the VS development environment which may not apply to other tools, such as Visual C# 2005 Express.
Conventions
To help you get the most from the text and keep track of what's happening, we've used a number of conventions throughout the book.
Try It Out
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The Try It Out is an exercise you should work through, following the text in the book.
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They usually consist of a set of steps.
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Each step has a number.
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Follow the steps through with your copy of the database.
How It Works
After each Try It Out , the code you've typed will be explained in detail.
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We present code in two different ways:
In code examples we highlight new and important code with a gray background. The gray highlighting is not used for code that's less important in the present context, or has been shown before.
Source Code
As you work through the examples in this book, you may choose either to type in all the code manually or to use the source code files that accompany the book. All of the source code used in this book is available for download at http://www.wrox.com. Once at the site, simply locate the book's title (either by using the Search box or by using one of the title lists) and click the Download Code link on the book's detail page to obtain all the source code for the book.
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Once you download the code, just decompress it with your favorite compression tool. Alternately, you can go to the main Wrox code download page at http://www.wrox.com/dynamic/books/download.aspx to see the code available for this book and all other Wrox books.
Errata
We make every effort to ensure that there are no errors in the text or in the code. However, no one is perfect, and mistakes do occur. If you find an error in one of our books, like a spelling mistake or faulty piece of code, we would be very grateful for your feedback. By sending in errata you may save another reader hours of frustration and at the same time you will be helping us provide even higher quality information.
To find the errata page for this book, go to http://www.wrox.com and locate the title using the Search box or one of the title lists. Then, on the book details page, click the Book Errata link. On this page you can view all errata that has been submitted for this book and posted by Wrox editors. A complete book list including links to each's book's errata is also available at www.wrox.com/misc-pages/booklist.shtml .
If you don't spot "your" error on the Book Errata page, go to
www.wrox.com/contact/techsupport.shtml
and complete the form there to send us the error you have found. We'll check the information and, if appropriate, post a message to the book's errata page and fix the problem in