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 are shown as follows: "We can include other contexts through the use of the include directive."

A block of code is set as follows:

public MyMessage SomethingInteresting(XLANGMessage message)
{
    MyMessage myMessage = message[0].RetrieveAs(typeof(MyMessage)) as MyMessage;
    return myMessage;
}
public XmlReader SomethingElse(XLANGMessage message)
{
    XmlReader reader = message[0].RetrieveAs(typeof(XmlReader)) as XmlReader;
    return reader;
}

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

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Order xmlns="http://wmp/schemas/quote">
  <Number>1234</Number>
  <Date>2011-06-11</Date>
  <Item Number="4432" Quantity="1" />
  <Item Number="5532" Quantity="2" />
</Order>

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

gacutil /i PRP.OrderProcessing.Library.dll

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 you click the Parameter Name dropdown, you will see that the Products variable is already specified. Select it and click OK".