There is one more useful application of script from the “Explore local network with F# Async Workflows” post. During the check of the machine availability we can collect IP addresses of all machines. After that we can compare IPs of different hosts names for collision. It is a good way to understand what is going [...]

One more interesting task is to explore local network and check which computers are alive. As a first step we need to get a list of computers which registered in Active Directory (as you understand, this approach works only for networks with Active Directory). Here we can use DirectorySearcher from System.DirectoryServices namespace. We create DirectoryEntry that by default [...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Gustavo Guerra released “LearnOnTheGo” – Windows Phones App for Coursera. Tomas Petricek shared source code of an F# wrapper for gnuplot charting library. Be free to improve it! New Canopy web site with documentation was released (and new Canopy 0.7.2). Shared [...]

Reblogged from In F# Major: Today a question popped up on Stack Overflow on how to arrange running F# scripts from Windows context menu, but in case of abnormal termination still having opportunity to access diagnostics. Regular context menu item Run with F# interactive lacks the latter because interactive console window closes abruptly on script [...]

I have faced with an interesting F# behaviour on the null check. I tried to make a MongoDB query using C# Driver LINQ but F# compiler said that I could not compare the result with null, because result could not be null, but I am sure that query can return nothing =). I am going to show you the [...]