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, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "This happens because the Add method of the List<T> class is not thread safe, and the reason for this lies in the implementation details."

A block of code is set as follows:

public void Add(T item)
{
    if (_size == _items.Length) EnsureCapacity(_size + 1);
    _items[_size++] = item;
    _version++;
}

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

public void Add(T item)
{
    if (_size == _items.Length) EnsureCapacity(_size + 1);
    _items[_size++] = item;
    _version++;
}

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

T2: Add - [T2]: Item 1
T1: Add - [T1]: Item 1
T2: Add - [T2]: Item 2
T2: Add - [T2]: Item 3

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: "Click on Finish and repeat all this for another controller."