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, and user input are shown as follows: "Behind the scenes, WiX introduces a new project type that has a .wixproj file extension."

A block of code is set as follows:

<ComponentGroup Id="SampleComponentGroup" 
                Directory="SampleComponentsDirectory">
  <Component Id="cmpSampleTextFileTXT" 
             Guid="{5382BC02-4484-4C9B-8734-A99D20632EA9}">
    <File Source="SampleTextFile.txt" />
  </Component>
</ComponentGroup>

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

<ComponentGroup Id="SampleComponentGroup" 
                Directory="SampleComponentsDirectory">
  <Component Id="cmpSampleTextFileTXT" 
             Guid="{5382BC02-4484-4C9B-8734-A99D20632EA9}">
    <File Source="SampleTextFile.txt" />
  </Component>
</ComponentGroup>

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

# msiexec /i InstallPackageA.msi /l*v install.log

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: "Select the Setup Project template from the list of available project types."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.