Conventions

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

Code has several fonts. If it's a word that we're talking about in the text - for example, when discussing a for (...) loop, it's in this font. If it's a block of code that can be typed as a program and run, then it's also in a gray box:

 ldstr    "Hello, World!" call     void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(string) 

Sometimes we'll see code in a mixture of styles, like this:

 .method static void Main() cil managed {    .maxstack 1    .entrypoint    ldstr    "Hello, World!"    call     void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(string)    ret } 

In cases like this, the code with a white background is code we are already familiar with; the line highlighted in gray is a new addition to the code since we last looked at it.

Advice, hints, and background information come in this type of font.

Important 

Important pieces of information come in boxes like this.

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

• Important Words are in a bold type font.

• Words that appear on the screen, or in menus like the Open or Close, are in a similar font to the one you would see on a Windows desktop.

• Keys that you press on the keyboard, like Ctrl and Enter, are in italics.