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: "We use the ForEach method, which receives an Action delegate argument."

A block of code is set as follows:

static void GenerateStrings()
{
  string initialString = "Initial Data-";
  for (int i = 0; i < 5000; i++)
  {
    initialString += "-More data-";
  }
  Console.WriteLine("Strings generated");
}

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: "In the Memory Usage tab, we can take a snapshot of what's going on."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.