I had some trouble where a simple parser would take a bit of time. Turns out that there were many ways of improving this performance. I rewrote it to use the xml reader instead to be able to do these improvements. Some funky bugs got squished. The reader [...]

I had some trouble where a simple parser would take a bit of time. Turns out that there were many ways of improving this performance. I rewrote it to use the xml reader instead to be able to do these improvements. Some funky bugs got squished. The reader [...]

In this blog post, I show off a number of F# integration features in Visual Studio 2012, by walking through an end-to-end scenario of authoring and testing an F# library.   The code itself is not the focus; rather, I’ll focus on the IDE tooling as we walk[...]

This is a list of my takeaways from the excellent talk between Erik Meijer (of the LINQ and Rx fame), Carl Hewitt (creator of the Actor model) and Clemens Szyperski, on the Actor model.   Disclaimer : this conversation revolves around the conceptual model[...]

Imagine the user experience of a gaming console. It’s very focused on a selected few tasks: starting games, playing movies… An ipad is conceptually a similar device. You can surf, run certain applications, watch movies, listen to music. The user interface[...]

Imagine the user experience of a gaming console. It’s very focused on a selected few tasks: starting games, playing movies… An ipad is conceptually a similar device. You can surf, run certain applications, watch movies, listen to music. The user interface[...]

As announced by the Visual F# team today at StrangeLoop 2012, the open source code drop for F# 3.0 is now available!   This code drop comes right on the heels of the release of F# 3.0 as part of Visual Studio 2012, and the Free Tools for F# for use with V[...]

The F# 3.0 Freebase Type Provider Sample includes some support for query translation from F# 3.0 LINQ queries to MQL. Some sample queries are here. You can write queries in F# 3.0 with auto-completion and strong typing, and still execute efficiently on th[...]

The F# 3.0 Freebase Type Provider Sample includes some support for query translation from F# 3.0 LINQ queries to MQL. This means you can write queries in F# 3.0 with auto-completion and strong typing, and still execute efficiently on the server, at least [...]

So, Im using Process Monitor to hunt down some permission or anti virus problems in windows. I notice  a query to a registry key “Image File Execution Options”. I get curious. Turns out that you can turn on a debugger when starting a program. Someone used[...]