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, cookbook names, recipe names, scripts, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, and pathnames are shown as follows: "The Register attribute is used to expose classes to the underlying Objective-C runtime."

A block of code is set as follows:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using MonoTouch.Foundation;
using MonoTouch.UIKit;

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

EKEvent newEvent = EKEvent.FromStore(evStore);
newEvent.StartDate = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1);
newEvent.EndDate = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1.1);
newEvent.Title = "Xamarin event!";

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

cd <code_directory>/CH06_code/WcfService/WcfService
./start_wcfservice.sh

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes, for example, appear in the text like this: "Go to the Library pane and select Objects from the drop-down list."