Tag Archives: eBook

RELEASE: ASP .NET Core 3.1 A-Z eBook

By Shahed C on August 3, 2020
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As promised, below is the initial release of the ASP .NET Core 3.1 A-Z ebook. This combines the 26 blog posts from the series of ASP .NET Core articles on this website.

ASP .NET Core 3.1 A-Z ebook cover

You can find the complete ebook on GitHub using one of the links below:

Things to note (updated):

  • The cover image was generated using the Canva mobile app
  • The 2020 eBook is still a work in progress 🙂
  • I’m using my Worker Service sample to auto-generate Word documents from each blog post by converting each article’s HTML into Word format using MariGold.OpenXHTML
  • After some tweaking, images have been manually resized using a Macro in the Word document. Automatic resizing doesn’t seem to work between HTML to Word conversions, but feel free to submit a Pull Request if you have suggestions on how to fix it.
  • Animated GIF images don’t work in the ebook, so a link to each original source has been included where they appear in a few chapters.
  • The content currently covers ASP .NET Core 3.1

RELEASE: ASP .NET Core A-Z eBook

By Shahed C on July 29, 2019
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As promised, below is the initial release of the ASP .NET Core A-Z ebook. This combines the 26 blog posts from the series of ASP .NET Core articles on this website.

ASPNETCoreLogo-300x267 A – Z of ASP .NET Core!

eBook cover

eBook cover

You can find the complete ebook on GitHub using one of the links below:

Don’t miss my guest appearance on the .NET Community Standup:

    • With Jon Galloway, Damian Edwards and Scott Hanselman.
    • 5:07 -> video starts
    • 18:58 to 36:20 -> my segment
    • 36:20 to end -> just chatting

Things to note (updated):

  • The cover image was generated using the Canva mobile app
  • The eBook is still a work in progress 🙂
  • I’m using my Worker Service sample to auto-generate Word documents from each blog post by converting each article’s HTML into Word format using MariGold.OpenXHTML
  • After some tweaking, images have been manually resized per chapter. Automatic resizing doesn’t seem to work between HTML to Word conversions, but feel free to submit a Pull Request if you have suggestions on how to fix it.
  • Animated GIF images don’t work in the ebook, so a link to each original source has been included where they appear in a few chapters.
  • The content currently covers a combination of ASP .NET Core 2.2 and 3.0 (Preview). In the weeks/months ahead, the content will be updated to include Core 3.0 across the entire series.

SNEAK PEEK: ASP .NET Core A-Z eBook

By Shahed C on July 15, 2019
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Over the past 26 weeks, this blog has hosted a series of ASP .NET Core articles to cover 26 different topics from A-Z. Below is a sneak peek of an upcoming eBook that will combine all 26 blog posts as 26 chapters of the book.

ASPNETCoreLogo-300x267 A – Z of ASP .NET Core!

Things to note:

  • The eBook is still a work in progress 🙂
  • I’m using my Worker Service sample to auto-generate Word documents from each blog post by converting each article’s HTML into Word format using MariGold.OpenXHTML
  • The code segments are wrapped in <pre> tags on the site, but these don’t convert easily into Word, so I’m setting each code block’s CSS style to use Courier-New fonts before the conversion
  • I also fixed a bug around converting newline characters into <br> breaks within the <pre> tags
  • Images are still broken as of this writing, as each image tends to appear in their original size, going off the page throughout each Word document. This should be fixed soon.
  • The content currently covers a combination of ASP .NET Core 2.2 and 3.0 (Preview). In the weeks/months ahead, the content will be updated to include Core 3.0 across the entire series.
  • The complete eBook will be available as a free PDF.

eBook cover

eBook cover

You can find the Worker Service sample code on GitHub:

Web Worker Service Sample: https://github.com/shahedc/WorkerServiceSample

The (unpolished) auto-generated Word documents are also available in the GitHub repo, within a “chapters” subfolder:

Stay tuned for updates!