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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This is the post which went missing – I think due to a Windows Update and a Browser session restore it got overwritten with a copy of edition 1474 in a draft state. Hopefully putting this post back won’t break anything else :-/

Software

• Code Refractor – MSIL/CIL to Native: Code Refractor 0.0.1 – First release is available – Ciprian Khlud announces te release of Code Refractor a tool which takes MSIL and converts it into valid C++ allowing it to be compiled natively – certainly sounds like an interesting project.
• .NET Framework setup verification tool and cleanup tool now support .NET Framework 4.5.1 – Aaron Stebner announces an update to his .NET Framework setup verification and .NET Framework cleanup tools which now support .NET 4.5.1
• A New Home for the F# Community Project Templates – Daniel Mohl announces a new location for the F# Community Project Templates which provide F# templates for a variety of common project types

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• 30 Days of TDD – Day 18 – Refactoring Revisited Pt. 1 – James Bender continues with his series looking at Test Driven Development from first principles. In this post James continues building out the sample with a look at some more refactoring, supported by tests.
• P2 Magazine – Thoughtworks have released the November edition of P2 Magazine, an online software development magazine. This month features articles on agile stories, continuous delivery, DevOps, the evolution of programming languages and much more.
• Shipping Visual Studio snippets in an extension – Mads Kristensen discusses the inclusion of snippets are a part of a Visual Studio Extension, showing step by step how to package up snippets into an extension.
• A High-Value, Undocumented LESS Editor Feature in Visual Studio – VKichline highlights a nice feature of the LESS support in Visual Studio from 2012 Update 2
• Playing around with JavaScript modules – Peter Provost discusses the modularisation of JavaScript with a look at the two different module techniques available.
• It’s now even cheaper to build apps for the Windows Store! &Windows and Windows Phone developer accounts merged – Jennifer Marsman and Rami Sarieddine highlight the exciting news that accounts for Windows Phone and Windows Store applications are being merged, meaning it is going to be ever cheaper to be a developer on both platforms.

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Software

• DeprecatedAPI tool now available! – The Premier Field Engineering Blog highlights the availability of the DeprecatedAPI tool which provides an easy reference to the API calls and properties which have been depreciated in Windows 8.1
• Plan for Prism for Windows 8.1 – Blaine Wastell highlights the release of the Second Drop of Prism for Windows 8.1 on CodePlex and also lays out the plans for the actual release.
• Hello Umbraco 7 RC – Niels Hartvig announces the release of the Release Candidate of Umbracco 7, featuring new grounds up user interface built on ASP.NET 4.5 and AngualrJS

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• Making Web Development Wonderful Again with Web Essentials – Schabse Laks extols the virtues of the Web Essentials Visual Studio Extension, which adds valuable functionality for Web Developers to the IDE
• Building an Azure IaaS and on-premise hybrid environment Part 2: DC and servers in the cloud – Rik Hepworth continues his detailed series of posts looking at building a hybrid Azure / on-Premise infrastructure with a look at putting the key parts of the domain in the cloud.
• Philosophy of Programming: Introduction to Nodejs and Mocha – ‘Mike’ shares a useful post which follows on from one included a few days back looking at more ‘getting started’ topics with Node.js, exploring some TDD practices with Mocha
• Using Kudu to capture First-Chance dumps for Windows Azure Web Sites – Wei takes a look at capturing and retrieving memory dumps of your ASP.NET Web Applications hosted on Azure Websites, walking through the process.
• Using WebSockets with Windows Azure Web Sites – Larry Franks takes a look at getting Web Socket Support in Azure hosted Node.JS applications.
• Frameworkless JS – an example – Rob Ashton shares some code which illustrates his ‘Frameworkless-JS’ approach to JavaScript programming, avoiding getting bogged down in existing frameworks, illustrating how may of the features you need are easily implementable without their help.

Community

• Happy Anniversary! DevExpress is 15 years old – Julian M Bucknall highlights the 15th Birthday of DevExpress
• Modern Garbage Collection in Theory and Practice – Sasha Goldshtein shares a recent presentation looking at how garbage collection works in modern platforms.

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