Free online Rx Book

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I would like to announce that the book "Introduction To Rx" is now available. It is a free book, detailing the broad feature set of the Rx framework. The content is available online at www.IntroToRx.com. You can also get a copy for offline reading in .mobi format (e.g. for Kindle readers) on the site.

I believe there is a gap in the market between the various blog posts that introduce Rx, posts that tackle a small section of Rx, the videos on Channel 9 and the existing book that is on the market. This book aims to take all users of Rx, beginners and experts alike, and walk them through the library and the thinking behind it. It will guide you to a better understanding of how and when to use each of the parts of the library. I hope that even veterans of Rx will learn some things along the way!

I am happy to get feedback (both positive and negative/constructive) as replies to this post.

I hope it helps the Rx community.

Regards

Lee Campbell (Author)

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Lee Campbell http://LeeCampbell.blogspot.com

Answer 1

Nice work Lee!  Been looking forward to this being released.

Answer 2

Really nice, Lee - already passing out references to this to my team members.

Will be very interested to see how much it improves their get-up-to-speed time.

Answer 3

Thanks Lee! I loved your original blog posts on the subject.

Could you produce a pdf of this book as well? We're working in a private lan, so it'll be an easier medium for me to distribute.

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Omer Mor

Answer 4

Hi Lee

I'm currently working on a team with Matt Barrett and he introduced me to your http://www.introtorx.com/ site, and it's great (thanks)! I was wondering if it would be easy for you to make an epub version of your book available, as I don't use a kindle but would love to read it on the go.

Regards
Riko

Answer 5

I wouldn't put "easy" in any sentence relating to writing this book ;-)

If that is a format that people want then I will look into it.  Initial investigation looks promising.

I was also considering producing just a standard old PDF and word docx formats. I have some final touches to apply from my editor this weekend and then I can focus on getting it into those formats.

Thanks for your interest.

Lee

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Lee Campbell http://LeeCampbell.blogspot.com

Answer 6

Great job Lee - very useful for both my own reference and pointing others to!

When's v2.0 due? :)

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marcuswhitworth.com

Answer 7

>When's v2.0 due? :)

I will solve a couple of the formatting problems we have been having with Kindle (it is like the bad old day of Div vs Layer tags trying to generate decent MOBI formats), I will get it published up on to Amazon. Then I will have a crack at getting it to other formats (see Omer Mor and RikoEksteen's requests).

After that I will pick it all up again and get V2 done. Hopefully (but with a 1% chance) I will get something out before v2 is official. I assume the big things that people want to see in the v2 is async/await support? I also want to include a section on IQbservable in the next edition. Is there anything else people are looking for?

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Lee Campbell http://LeeCampbell.blogspot.com

Answer 8

Kindle version available now on Amazon for less than the price of a bad coffee.

Search "Introduction to Rx" on your region's amazon site.

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Lee Campbell http://LeeCampbell.blogspot.com

Answer 9

Awesome job Lee. From one author to another, I know how much this is a labor of love. Now I feel less compelled to write this one myself ;-) I gave my $.99 plus a quick review at http://www.thinqlinq.com/Post.aspx/Title/Reactive-Extensions-books. Hope that helps.

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http://www.ThinqLinq.com http://www.LinqInAction.net - "LINQ In Action", The book is now available. Don't wait for the movie

Answer 10

On page http://www.introtorx.com/Content/v1.0.10621.0/05_Filtering.html

could it be that you copy paste the SkipLast example for what was ment to be the takelast?

Reading the book atm. Well done and much needed :)

Answer 11

Thanks for the link Jim.

A labor of love it is, I figured trying to sell a book for $10-30, I might sell 100, and after royalty I might get $70?! Not a lot of money, so make it free (or cheap) so people will actually read it. :-)

It seems that Jessie/Paul's book plus my one now fill the 101 gap. My next task will be to create the Advanced one that also covers

• Cookbook style samples e.g. How to : Read a stream, Aggregate Prices, Consume tweets, Integrate with WPF/MVVM etc....
• New features of v2.0
• IQbservable
• async/await
• RxJS
  
• StreamInsight

I am not sure if the wife is too keen for me to start another one though!

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Lee Campbell http://LeeCampbell.blogspot.com

Answer 12

Thanks Tom.

Looks like you are spot on. That does look like a cut and paste Fail. I will update it asap.

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Lee Campbell http://LeeCampbell.blogspot.com

Answer 13

Hi Lee,

Just wanted to drop a note to say that your IntroToRx.com website is great!  I have Jesse & Paul's book and had been doing a bit of Rx previously, but reading your site "cover to cover" was a great way to solidify the concepts and gradually build a deeper level of understanding.

Thanks for the resource! :)

Cheers, Ian

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Ian Yates Technical Manager Medical IT Pty Ltd PO Box 501, Carina QLD 4152 Australia Web: www.medicalit.com.au

Answer 14

Thanks for taking the time to say thanks guys. Makes it all worth while.

I am starting to collect ideas for the cookbook now. I hope there are some helpful gems that come out of that too, but don't hold your breath, this is a long way away.

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Lee Campbell http://LeeCampbell.blogspot.com

Answer 15

Awesome stuff Lee, v.cool making it free too :)

Answer 16

Lee, this book has been a real go-to reference for me as I've been brushing up my Rx skills. Thanks for writing it, and sharing it so freely.

James World

Answer 17

Amazing work! Thanks so much for writing this and making the Kindle edition available. It is by far the best "introduction" to Rx that I have found, and I learned a lot despite having used Rx extensively in a previous project. I will be recommending it to all of my coworkers and sincerely hope that its availability will speed the adoption of this incredible framework. 

Answer 18

Hey man, 

Just want to say thank you very much for sharing such a great book with us!

I am really enjoying reading it.

Best

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Adriano

Answer 19

Enjoying the book so far; thanks for writing it and making it available!

I saw a couple of typos at http://www.introtorx.com/Content/v1.0.10621.0/04_CreatingObservableSequences.html: the first name of both Jeffrey Richter and Jeffrey van Gogh is "Jeffrey", not "Jeffery" (http://www.wintellect.com/cs/blogs/jeffreyr/, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeffva/).