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: "Browse to the Restaurants.gdb geodatabase, select the Food_and_Drinks feature class."

A block of code is set as follows:

Dim pClosestTower As IFeature = pTowerLayer.FeatureClass.GetFeature(closestTowerOID)

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

Dim pTheTextElement As IElement = pTextElement
pTheTextElement.Geometry = pTextPoint
pDocument.ActiveView.GraphicsContainer.AddElement(pTheTextElement, 0)
pDocument.ActiveView.Refresh()

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: "From the Visual Studio application, click on the File menu and then select New Project."