Conventions Used in This Book

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

• Did You Knows highlight information that can make using ASP.NET 2.0 more effective.

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

• By the Ways provide useful 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. Placeholderswords or characters used temporarily to represent the real words or characters you would type in codeare typeset in italic monospace. If you are asked to type or enter text, that text will appear in bold monospace.

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

I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Happy Programming!

Scott Mitchell

[e-mail]