Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles 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: "Entity Framework 6 now provides support for spatial data types using DbGeography and DbGeometry types."

A block of code is set as follows:

public class User
    {
        public virtual Int32 UserID { get; set; }
        public virtual String UserName { get; set; }
        public virtual String CreatedBy { get; set; }
        public virtual DateTime CreatedDate { get; set; }
        public virtual String ModifiedBy { get; set; }
        public virtual DateTime ModifiedDate { get; set; }
    }

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

static void Main(string[] args)
        { 
            DataContextDataContextvar context = new DataContext(GetConnectionString());
            context.CreateDatabase();
        }

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

edmgen /mode:fullgeneration /c:"Data Source=.;Initial Catalog=SecurityDB;User ID=sa;Password=sa1@3;" /p:SecurityDB

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "You can see that the Convert to Enum option is enabled."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.