EP 26 : 75+ Resources to boost your .NET skills

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In today’s newsletter we are going to list down .NET resources and books

• Dotnet Books

• DotNet Topics

• Books for Life

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25+ Free eBooks

1. .NET Microservices Architecture Guidance

2. DevOps for .NET Apps

3. Migrate .NET apps to Azure App Service

4. .NET & Azure e-books

5. ASP.NET Core Application Architecture

6. .NET MAUI Architecture Guidance

7. .NET Desktop Application Architecture

8. 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

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15+ Paid Books

This list is compiled after asking a lot of developers in .NET community

1. C# in Depth: Fourth Edition 4th Edition by Jon Skeet

2. ASP.NET Core in Action by Andrew Lock

3. C# 10 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference 1st Edition by Joseph Albahari

4. C# 11 and .NET 7 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals by Mark J.Price

5. C# 10 and .NET 6 - Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals by Mark J.Price

6. C# 9 and .NET 5 – Modern Cross-Platform Development by Mark J.Price

7. C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development by Mark J.Price

8. Ultimate ASP.NET Core Web API Second Edition - Premium Package by Code Maze (10% off)

9. An Atypical ASP.NET Core 5 Design Patterns Guide by Carl-Hugo Marcotte

10. Web Development with Blazor by Jimmy Engstrom

11. Blazor WebAssembly By Example by Toi B.Wright

12. Apps and Services with .NET 7 by Mark J.Price

13. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C.Martin

14. React 18 Design Patterns and Best Practices 4th Edition by Carlos Santana Roldán

15. Angular Projects: Build modern web apps in Angular 16, 3rd Edition by Aristeidis Bampakos

16. Head First Design Patterns: Building Extensible and Maintainable Object-Oriented Software 2nd Edition by Eric Freeman

17. .NET MAUI in Action by Matt Goldman

18. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software 1st Edition by Eric Evans

19. For design patterns visit Design Gurus and Interview Questions Kit

20. Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# 1st Edition by Robert Martin

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40+ .NET Topics with Explanations

These are the topics list that I have covered in my LinkedIn posts

1. Single Responsibility Principle

2. Open/Closed Principle

3. Liskov Substitution Principle

4. Interface Segregation Principle

5. Dependency Inversion Principle

6. Intro to Middlewares

7. CORS

8. Rate Limiting

9. Response Caching

10. Response Compression

11. Global Error Handling

12. Multiple ways to create middlewares

13. NLog

14. Hangfire

15. Bogus

16. Mapster

17. NodaTime

18. JSON .NET

19. Dapper

20. Automapper

21. Autofac

22. Mailkit

23. Health Checks

24. DRY

25. KISS

26. YAGNI

27. Six Famous Principles

28. Repository Design Pattern

29. Action Filters

30. Exception Filters

31. Cancellation Token

32. Tracking vs NoTracking

33. Compare strings

34. Write better LINQ

35. Clean Code Tips

36. JWT in .NET Core

37. gRPC

38. Null Operators Guide

39. IEnumerable vs List

40. 15 Nuget Packages

41. Dependency Injection

42. Clean Architecture Layers

43. Right order to learn .NET

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5+ Self Help and Psychology Books

This list is my personal compilation which helped me a lot in my life

1. How To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie [Original version]

2. How to Win Friends & Influence People In The Digital Age by Dale Carnegie

3. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Green

4. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

5. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel

6. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

7. Start with Why by Simon Sinek

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