Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "In the website project, open the Views/Home/Index.cshtml file and make some changes to the markup."

A block of code is set as follows:

public class AuthHelper
{
    public static async Task<Customer> GetCustomer(ServiceUser serviceUser, CustomerMobileServiceContext ctx)
    {
        // Find Twitter Id, of form Twitter:123456789
        var idParts = serviceUser.Id.Split(':');
        var key = idParts[1];
        var provider = idParts[0];

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

public class AuthHelper
{
    public static async Task<Customer> GetCustomer(ServiceUser serviceUser, CustomerMobileServiceContext ctx)
    {
        // Find Twitter Id, of form Twitter:123456789
        var idParts = serviceUser.Id.Split(':');
        var key = idParts[1];
        var provider = idParts[0];

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

Install-Package WindowsAzure.MobileServices

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Enter Project name and Description and select the Team Foundation Version Control option (this is the default option), and then click on Create project."

Note

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Tip

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