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: To provide further uniqueness, we could name the fields employee.employee_address and customer.customer_address

A block of code will be set as follows:

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object,
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Dim articlesAdapter As New DataSet1TableAdapters.ArticlesTableAdapter
GridView1.DataSource = articlesAdapter.GetData()
GridView1.DataBind()
End Sub

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

<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<%@ Register Src="~/Controls/ImageRotatorControl.ascx"
TagName="ImageRotator" TagPrefix="cms" %>

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

aspnet_regsql.exe -S .\SQLEXPRESS -U sa -P SimpleCMS -d SimpleCMS_Database -A all

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 our text like this: "When you see the registration information, enter your name and company, then uncheck the Hide advanced configuration options checkbox".