Big news. Microsoft releases the next c# and vb.net compiler as open source. Miquel de Icaza speaks of making it work on mono as well. It’s licensed under Apache license.

This post is the answer to yesterday's brainteaser. As a reminder, I was asking what purpose this code might have: public static class Extensions  {      public static void Add<T>(this ICollection<T> source, T item)      {          source.Add(item);     [...]

This post is the answer to yesterday’s brainteaser. As a reminder, I was asking what purpose this code might have: public static class Extensions  {      public static void Add<T>(this ICollection<T> source, T item)      {          source.Add(item);      [...]

Just a really quick one today... What's the point of this code? Does it have any point at all? public static class Extensions {     public static void Add<T>(this ICollection<T> source, T item)     {         source.Add(item);     } } [...]

Paul Schoenfelder and I are sort of trying to get more Windows developers to take a look at Elixir.  We both think Elixir’s got a great story to tell and Windows developers will be very excited when they find out more about it. In that spirit, we’ve updat[...]

Just a really quick one today… What’s the point of this code? Does it have any point at all? public static class Extensions {     public static void Add<T>(this ICollection<T> source, T item)     {         source.Add(item);     } } Bonus marks if you can [...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Hottest news! Visual F# Tools are opened for your contribution!!! Anders Hejlsberg is a great fun of F#. Dave Thomas was officially awarded by first F# Community Bad Ass Award! New us[...]

As part of our open engineering efforts, we are working with the F# community to enable better Web Project support in the Visual F# Tools, including "publish to web". If you would like to contribute to this or test early versions it, please see the detail[...]

Following up on the last Roslyn preview way back in 2012, this week saw the availability of a new preview with a more complete compiler along with a few new language features for C# and VB. A lot of inspiration for these features seems to have come from t[...]

It's been a scandalously long time since I've blogged about C#, and now that the first C# 6 preview bits are available, that feels like exactly the right thing to set the keys clacking again. Don't expect anything massively insightful from me just yet; I'[...]