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 are shown as follows: "So if the file is called products.txt, it would be appropriate to name the File Map as Products."

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 our text like this: "Open the Contributor Administration Console from Windows Start button".

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.

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