Razor is a programming syntax for dynamic ASP.Net web pages released in 2011. Here’s a C# syntax example from W3 Schools: <!-- Single statement block --> @{ var myMessage = "Hello World"; } <!-- Inline expression or variable --> <p>The value of myMe[...]

In general, when you see async void in your code it’s bad news, because: you can’t wait for its completion (as mentioned in this post already) any unhandled exceptions will terminate your process (ouch!)   Suppose you have a timer event that fires every o[...]

 Regular readers of my blog will know that from time to time I post details of F# jobs. Here is one for today. Please contact ajeraj@astoncarter.co.uk for more details.   We’re looking for talented, self-motivated developers with a strong interest in func[...]

The Visual F# team are glad to announce that we have now updated the F# Language Specification for F# 3.0 (HTML, PDF)The aim of this update is to document the language features introduced in F# 3.0.  This update covers  the extensions to computation expre[...]

I recently presented Clojure & CFML Sitting In A Tree remotely to the Houston CFUG via Adobe Connect. The presentation was recorded and is available to watch on Adobe Connect: Clojure & CFML Sitting In A Tree. The presentation is also listed on Charlie Ar[...]

Looking for an event where you could learn about F#? The second half of autumn will be a busy time with Progressive F# Tutorials happening at the beginning of November and the TechMesh Conference planned for the first week in December!

With the official release of .Net 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012, I suspect many .Net developers will be rushing to rewrite their data access or network layers (amongst many many other things!) to take advantage of the new async-await (see the excellent 101 e[...]

In Erlang, we have the Supervisor behaviour which makes it very easy to provide the means to monitor and restart a whole network of workers and other supervisors based on some configured strategy. The MailboxProcessor (aka agents) in F# doesn’t come with [...]

When we released F# Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web last month, we made a short F# launch video available: F# 3.0 Information Rich Programming. The video featured a sample C#/F# MVC4 ASP.NET app named “B-Movie Madness,” which we’ve now made[...]