Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish among 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: " When we construct a thread, an instance of the ThreadStart or ParameterizedThreadStart delegate is passed to the constructor."

A block of code is set as follows:

static void PrintNumbers()
{
  Console.WriteLine("Starting...");
  for (int i = 1; i < 10; i++)
  {
    Console.WriteLine(i);
  }
}

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: "Start Visual Studio 2012. Create a new C# Console Application project."