Microsoft® Visual C#® .NET 2003 Kick Start

Conventions Used in This Book

The following typographic conventions are used in this book:

• When we've added a new piece of code and are discussing it, it'll appear shaded, and when there's more code to come, you'll see three dots. Here's what that looks like:

  class ch01_07
  {
   static void Main()
   {
    long source = 5;
    int target;
    target = (int) source;
    .
    .
    .
   }
  }
  

• Occasionally, we'll discuss C# syntax in the compact form you'll see in the Microsoft documentation, and you should know how to decipher that. For example, check out this description showing how to create a method:

  [attributes] [modifiers] type identifier ([[out][ref]
  type parameter, [[out][ref]type parameter, ...]]) statement
  					

  In descriptions like this one, items in brackets ([ and ]) are optional, ...