Dispose In order to release unmanaged resources you need to use or implement the dispose method. Unmanaged resource So what is an unmanaged resource? It is simply resources that the CLR does not manage for you. For example: File streams, database conne[...]

A significant part of F# 3.0 support for F# Information Rich Programming is the F# Type Provider mechanism. An F# type provider is a component that provides types, properties, and methods for use in your program. For more information on F# 3.0 and the F# [...]

This release ships the preliminary support for mobile devices, a new WebSharper component we call WebSharper Mobile. [more...]

I’ve not had a need for any good date library until now. There seems to be one that most commonly used: datejs. The problem with this library is that it extends the native Date object. There is a relatively unknown repository on github (only a few watch a[...]

Continuing from last time, let’s look at how one goes from imperative pseudocode to pure functional using Gale-Shapely as an example. Overall, to convert an algorithm from imperative to functional is a fairly simple process once you understand how to conv[...]

I like the look of windows 8. For touch devices it will be sweet. What confounds me is that the start menu is replaced by the “Metro” application launcher. That sounds exceedingly annoying when on standard hardware. Where is the love for an ordinary PC? T[...]

I like the look of windows 8. For touch devices it will be sweet. What confounds me is that the start menu is replaced by the “Metro” application launcher. That sounds exceedingly annoying when on standard hardware. Where is the love for an ordinary PC? [...]

Sounds interesting to hear about the new WinRT api:s for windows. Reading up on it WinRT are COM objects in contrast to the Win32 architecture. One of the exciting things about this is the promise of being able to use xaml in c++. An overview of WinRT by [...]