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: "ServiceStack includes ServiceStack.OrmLite, which is much faster than Microsoft's own Entity Framework and most other ORMs."

A block of code is set as follows:

[Route("/hello/{Name}","GET")]
public class GreetingRequest
{
  public string Name { get; set; }
}

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 IEnumerable<Message> Where(Expression<Func<Message, bool>> expression)
  {
    using (var db = DbConnectionFactory.OpenDbConnection())
    {
      return db.Select(expression);
    }
  }

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

c:\projects>curl http://myserver/hello/world
Hello, world!

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: " To get started, create an empty ASP.NET solution in Visual Studio. We'll name it HelloWorldService."