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INTRODUCTION

Having some knowledge of SharePoint 2007 or ASP.NET will also be helpful, but it is not required.

Wherever possible, the SharePoint 2010 experience is compared to how things worked in SharePoint

2007 or in traditional ASP.NET applications.

CONVENTIONS

To help you get the most from the text and keep track of what’s happening, we’ve used a number of

conventions throughout the book.

Boxes like this one hold important, not-to-be forgotten information that is

directly relevant to the surrounding text.

Notes, tips, hints, tricks, and asides to the current discussion are offset and

placed in italics like this.

As for styles in the text:

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highlight new terms and important words when we introduce them.

We show keyboard strokes like this: Ctrl+A.

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We show fi le names, URLs, and code within the text like so:

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persistence.properties.

We present code in two different ways:

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We use a monofont type with no highlighting for most code examples.

We use bold highlighting to emphasize code that is of particular importance in the

present context.

SOURCE CODE

As you work through the examples in this book, you may choose either to type in all the code

manually or to use the source code fi les that accompany the book. All of the source code used in

this book is available for download at

www.wrox.com. Once at the site, simply locate the book’s title

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