By Shahed C on December 27, 2018

If you’ve been following my ASP .NET Core blog series from October to December 2018, you may have noticed a little surprise. The first letter of each article spells out the words HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Congratulations! You’ve made it this far! 😀

Not just a gimmick, this blog series kicks off with a “Hello World” intro to ASP .NET Core, reveals a new open-source learning app (NetLearner) halfway through, breaks all my previous blog viewership records with December’s .NET Core 3.0 recap after Connect(); 2018 and finally wraps with up a SignalR writeup (and a new sample app that’s not chat!)

Blog viewership numbers in 2018:

Jan – Sep: ~2k/month with little or no updates

Oct: ~6k

Nov: ~8k

Dec: 36k+ (as of Dec 27, when this blog post was published) 40k+ as of Dec 31 midnight



Special thanks to the following people at Microsoft for all your guidance, motivation, inspiration, feedback and suggestions:

Also, I really appreciate the support from the Visual Studio team with their tweets:

@VisualStudio on Dec 18: https://twitter.com/VisualStudio/status/1075086548712988673

@VisualStudio on Dec 20: https://twitter.com/VisualStudio/status/1075804272279867397

Here's a great list of @ASPNET Core Dev resources in this 'Wake Up and Code' blog series, https://t.co/5ouoTeFllD — Visual Studio (@VisualStudio) December 20, 2018

During this blog series, I also participated in Matthew Groves’ 2nd annual C# Advent 2018, which ran daily from Dec 1 – Dec 25. Check out his website to see dozens of new blog posts from many talented C# developers and bloggers:

The Second Annual C# Advent: https://crosscuttingconcerns.com/The-Second-Annual-C-Advent

Hope you enjoyed the 2018 series and will stay tuned for what’s to come in 2019: