Today we have added a new sample to the F# 3.0 Sample Pack – the Freebase Type Provider Sample!  You can also read the hot-off-the-presses technical report from our partner team in Microsoft Research which gives some of the background to this sample, watc[...]

 I'm very pleased to announce that Microsoft Research have published a new technical report related to F# 3.0 called Strongly-Typed Language Support for Internet-Scale Information Sources, (or go straight to the PDF). To reference this work, please cite M[...]

I’m lately trying to get (back) into Lisp/Scheme/Clojure-Space. While trying to get a reasonable Windows-environment for Clojure set-up (a pain… a PAIN – suggestions welcome) a stumpled upon Racket and I have to say I really like this (at least … Continue[...]

This week I had a dig through the old Commodore VIC-20 cassette tapes I had languishing in the garage and stumbled upon a game I was working on, just for fun, when I was about 11 or 12. After playing it on a genuine 8-bit 3.5K VIC, I managed to read the t[...]

In the last article we talked about subtraction. But of course there is more to “programming” than just arithmetic. One of the most basic things we need is a way to decide an output based on some value. You all … Continue reading →

As a C++11 programmer you’ve probably played with type inference and lambda functions and may now feel curious about trying a functional first programming language like F#. F# is a first class .Net programming language that ships with Visual Studio. Altho[...]

Nachdem es sich die letzten beiden Jahre mehr und mehr angekündigt hat, wurde der .NET Open Space in Leipzig nun in Dev Open Space 2012 umgetauft. Dies trägt dem Punkt Rechnung, dass die Themenwünsche der Teilnehmer immer breiter geworden sind und wir uns[...]

In F# you can write an extension method like this: Whilst this will work perfectly fine in your F# code, the extension method will not be visible to any C# code using the FileInfo type because F# and C# compiles extension methods differently. To make C#-c[...]

There is news on the faster F# Printf.* story. We released an alternative implementation as a package today. NuGet: IntelliFactory.Printf Source: https://bitbucket.org/IntelliFactory/printf Some background: F# Printf.* functions are a very nice interf[...]