Setup Continuous Integration and Deployment for dotnet library with Appveyor and FAKE Last week we saw a flow to manage versioning and releases. As a continuation of last week, today I will show how we can setup versioning and releases for open source pro[...]

SDK-Style project and project.assets.json Last week I encountered an issue with MSBuild while trying to run it from command line. The issue did not appear when using VisualStudio right click + build but only appeared when using msbuild.exe CLI directly wi[...]

  For those attending BUILD 2014 in San Francisco, the F# Bay Area Group will be hosting drinks at the Thirsty Bear Brewery at 6:00pm on Thursday, April 3, 2014. Come along and discsus how F# works as a community, learn how to contribute to F# tools, proj[...]

Has not been said yet, I do not think. In the F# world you may be looking at: MSBuild FAKE IntelliFactory.Build I am not going to do a detailed pro/con analysis of these just yet, but note that every one of them is currently missing abstractions [...]

FAKE is a tool to automate your builds with F# scripts. Use the newly available FAKE boot workflow to get started quickly, automatically reference packages, and plug in your own build logic from NuGet. Starting from FAKE 2.1.173-alpha FAKE includes a new[...]

Intended F# build workflow: start from an empty folder, write build.fsx, and run fake - and get anything building with software from NuGet. Draft Implementation  Discussion As we are using FAKE for scripting builds a little more at IntelliFactory, I co[...]

Latest snapshot of the WebSharper repositories (Bitbucket and at GitHub) showcases some build automation I finally managed to get working. It starts from MSBuild that uses NuGet to pull dependencies, including build dependencies, and then jumps to FAKE -[...]

Announcing a small utility library for generating VisualStudio VSTemplate and VSIX packages.

The Visual Studio F# team is excited to announce a preview release of F# 3.0 as part of the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview, announced on Tuesday at the //build/ conference. This preview is available now for all MSDN subscribers. The general release wi[...]