Before You Begin

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Font and Naming Conventions

We use fonts to distinguish between features, such as menu names, menu items, and other elements that appear in the program-development environment. Our convention is

• to emphasize Visual Studio features in a sans-serif bold font (e.g., Properties window) and

• to emphasize program text in a fixed-width sansserif font (e.g., bool x = true).

Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition

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