To get the most out of this book

The assumption is that you will have a good understanding of C# 6.0 at least. All the examples in this book will make use of C# 7 where relevant.

You will need to have Visual Studio 2017 installed with the latest patch. If you do not have Visual Studio 2017, you can install Visual Studio Community 2017 for free from https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/.

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "You can call the application anything you like, but I called mine eBookManager."

A block of code is set as follows:

namespace eBookManager.Engine 
{ 
    public class DeweyDecimal 
    { 
        public string ComputerScience { get; set; } = "000"; 
        public string DataProcessing { get; set; } = "004"; 
        public string ComputerProgramming { get; set; } = "005"; 
    } 
} 

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

    mongod -dbpath D:MongoTask 

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "After you have added all the storage spaces and eBooks, you will see the Virtual Storage Spaces listed."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.