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[...]

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[...]

The Freebase Type Provider Sample in the F# 3.0 Sample Pack supports a number of interesting static parameters to the type provider which control how Freebase is integrated into the F# programming language. These parameters are as follows: Key      [...]

Tip for the day: If you get the error ""Type provider assembly ... is not trusted and will not be loaded for security reasons" and you want to explicitly opt-in to trusting it, then Go to the Tools --> Options --> F# Tools --> Type Providers" in Visual S[...]

This is so good I keep going back to it, so to save myself and you the hassle of searching for it every time I thought I’d share it here on my blog, enjoy! Ten^H^H^H Many Cloud App Design Patterns from Shlomo Swidler