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: "Throughout this book, we will save our project source codes in the C:\SOAwithWCFandEF\Projects directory."

A block of code is set as follows:

namespace HelloWorldService
{
    [ServiceContract]
    public interface IHelloWorldService
    {
        [OperationContract]
        string GetMessage(string name);
    }
}

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: " If the Open Project dialog box pops up, click on Cancel to close it."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.