The Morning Brew

Yesterday’s edition seems to have gone missing from the blog….not sure why, will resurrect it later today.

Software

• IE11 for Windows 7 Globally Available for Consumers and Businesses – Rob Mauceri and Sandeep Singhal of the Internet Explorer Team announce the global availability of Internet Exploer 11 for Windows 7, a release which will be pushed out automatically in the coming weeks, with a direct download possible now.

Information

• Dealing with Multiplatform Project Files – Phil Haack discusses how he went about organising the Octokit.net project which targets multiple .NET plaforms. Good discussion on this on going on in the comments too.
• Null collections/arrays from MVC model binding – Jimmy Bogard discusses best practices for Collection and array properties, with the idea that you should never return null from such things, and explores a modification to the ASP.NET MVC ModelBinder which will help you enforce this when binding values to model classes.
• OData Scaffolding – .NET Web Development and Tools Blog – Kirthi takes a look at the new Visual Studio 2013 support for scaffolding controllers for OData which use Entity Framework, showing how the functionality can be utilised.
• Tips When Making Changes in Entity Framework Code First Models after Scaffolding – In another scaffolding related post, ‘anhphan’ discusses making changes to models in ASP.NET MVC 5 Scaffolded functionality, looking at migrations and Database Initializers along with it.
• Starting the frameworkless JS project – Rob Ashton kicks off a new project on the subject of creating application functionality without relying on frameworks. In this initial post Rob looks at setting up some of the environment and infrastructure to get going.
• What you really need to know when authoring NuGet packages – Cellfish discusses some best practices on the production of NuGet packages

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