Note: For the rest of this series, I'll be veering away from the original purpose of the project (investigating what the compiler is up to) in favour of discussing the feature itself. As such, I've added a requirement for AsyncCtpLib.dll - but due to pote[...]

Following my back-to-back talks with the UK Developers Group and NxtGenUG Southampton, I just like to say thanks those guys for having me, it’s been a great pleasure For anyone interested, here are the links to the slides and the source code I used for th[...]

Gordon has a blog post on F# agents with timeouts In my previous post , I showed a code snippet with a very simple F# agent console application. You run the app from the console, and every time you enter a line of text, it generates a new message and post[...]

Over on the F# team blog we've announced Updates to the August 2011 F# 2.0 Compiler Code Drop   As announced at the Microsoft Research 20th Anniversary event in Cambridge UK, we have updated the F# 2.0 compiler source code drop to include changes related [...]

Regular readers of my blog will know that from time to time I post pointers to technologies that work with F#, as a service to the F# community. I've blogged in the past about other maths and stats libraries that work with F#, and am adding another one to[...]

Tonight my colleague Byron Cook from MSR Cambridge will be speaking at the F#unctional Londoners meetup group Byron Cook: Proving program termination with F# Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 6:30 PM The Skills Matter eXchange 116-120 Goswell Road,  L[...]

As announced at the Microsoft Research 20th Anniversary event in Cambridge UK, we have updated the F# 2.0 compiler source code drop to include changes related to the www.tryfsharp.org web application. The code drop is the compiler\2.0\Aug2011.1 directory [...]

If you google for methods of detecting the cpu architecture, you’ll find lots of pages about how to use WMI and ManagementObjectSearcher. This is an immensely slow operation which takes more than a second to complete (at least when I’ve timed it on a 2.8 [...]