With the release of Xamarin 3 we have a swathe of new features to the platform, but obviously the most important one is obviously F# support is now included by default in Xamarin Studio so there is no escape from the awesomeness of F#! So what else have we got, well loads of other goodies too like Xamarin Designer for iOS, Xamarin.Forms, Major IDE enhancements, Improved code sharing with PCL and Shared projects, and BCL Documentation. You can see the release blog post here: announcing Xamarin 3 Ther[...]

As Howard Mansell already announced on the BlueMountain Tech blog, we have officially released the "1.0" version of Deedle. In case you have not heard of Deedle yet, it is a .NET library for interactive data analysis and exploration. Deedle works great with both C# and F#. It provides two main data structures: series for working with data and time series and frame for working with collections of series (think CSV files, data tables etc.) The great thing about Deedle is that it has been becoming a founda[...]

If you are following me or the #fsharp hashtag on Twitter, you might have already come across a link to fsharpWorks or one of the upcoming F# events organized by fsharpWorks. So, what is fsharpWorks and what are we planning for you?

Are you an F# user on Mac OS or Linux, looking for the easiest way to develop multi-project F# solutions with full code assistance and type checking? Would you like to use F# Interactive for developing and testing parts of your web applications interactively? Would you like to benefit from the multitude of web libraries in your development environment? Well, if yes - look no further, CloudSharper, the world's most versatile online IDE has arrived to Mac and Linux!

If you’ve ever tried to create an HttpMessageHandler in F#, you’ll have been bitten by the problem of not being able to call base.SendAsync from a callback. The solution is actually quite simple. Just wrap the HttpMessageHandler and expose the protected SendAsync method as a public or internal member: Now, you can call CallableSendAsync in […]