New version of canopy has been released today. This version includes an improved set of selectors: Relative selectors. New functions elementWithin and elementsWithin provide an ability to select element/elements in DOM sub-tree: You are able to write more complex page parsing code, for example like this: XPath support. From now, all selectors support XPath. There was also [...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, The greatest event of the past week is Xamarin EVOLVE 2013 Conference where official support of F# as a first class language was announced.  It is a great step forward for F# mobile development. Download Xamarin Studio and try it right now! A roundup of F# content from this past week: News [...]

There is one more useful application of script from the “Explore local network with F# Async Workflows” post. During the check of the machine availability we can collect IP addresses of all machines. After that we can compare IPs of different hosts names for collision. It is a good way to understand what is going [...]

One more interesting task is to explore local network and check which computers are alive. As a first step we need to get a list of computers which registered in Active Directory (as you understand, this approach works only for networks with Active Directory). Here we can use DirectorySearcher from System.DirectoryServices namespace. We create DirectoryEntry that by default [...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Gustavo Guerra released “LearnOnTheGo” – Windows Phones App for Coursera. Tomas Petricek shared source code of an F# wrapper for gnuplot charting library. Be free to improve it! New Canopy web site with documentation was released (and new Canopy 0.7.2). Shared [...]