Just a really quick one today... What's the point of this code? Does it have any point at all? public static class Extensions {     public static void Add<T>(this ICollection<T> source, T item)     {         source.Add(item);     } } [...]

Paul Schoenfelder and I are sort of trying to get more Windows developers to take a look at Elixir.  We both think Elixir’s got a great story to tell and Windows developers will be very excited when they find out more about it. In that spirit, we’ve updat[...]

Just a really quick one today… What’s the point of this code? Does it have any point at all? public static class Extensions {     public static void Add<T>(this ICollection<T> source, T item)     {         source.Add(item);     } } Bonus marks if you can [...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Hottest news! Visual F# Tools are opened for your contribution!!! Anders Hejlsberg is a great fun of F#. Dave Thomas was officially awarded by first F# Community Bad Ass Award! New us[...]

As part of our open engineering efforts, we are working with the F# community to enable better Web Project support in the Visual F# Tools, including "publish to web". If you would like to contribute to this or test early versions it, please see the detail[...]

Following up on the last Roslyn preview way back in 2012, this week saw the availability of a new preview with a more complete compiler along with a few new language features for C# and VB. A lot of inspiration for these features seems to have come from t[...]

It's been a scandalously long time since I've blogged about C#, and now that the first C# 6 preview bits are available, that feels like exactly the right thing to set the keys clacking again. Don't expect anything massively insightful from me just yet; I'[...]

It’s been a scandalously long time since I’ve blogged about C#, and now that the first C# 6 preview bits are available, that feels like exactly the right thing to set the keys clacking again. Don’t expect anything massively insightful from me just yet; I’[...]

A bugfix release of CloudSharper in preparation for the upcoming remote multi-user server feature.

The Visual F# Team are very happy to announce that, through our participation in Microsoft Open Technologies (MSOpenTech) and in conjunction with the F# community, we are now able to accept contributions to the Visual F# Tools.  Through this, we will also[...]