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Following on from yesterday’s post on Disinherited Types where I implement an F# type provider that hides inherited members of a type to let you focus on the useful members. The example was the WPF Button control which contains around 300 members via 9 le[...]

One of the things that’s always bugged me when using Windows UI libraries like WinForms and WPF is the sheer number of members that pop up in intellisense for a control. The Button type in WPF has around 300 members and a total of 9 levels of inheritance [...]

Welcome to the 2015 F# Advent Calendar and one of 2 posts for December 3rd. For last year’s advent calendar I tried to follow the seasonal theme and produced an article on generating snowflakes. This year I thought I’d be more literal and look at producin[...]

Read the previous article: FSharpArm - part 1 As the previous article was "current-status". Progress brought new insights, and so the following corrections apply:I develop in VS2015 under Windows, so I didn’t need to install Akka.Net on the RPi; install[...]

FunSharp is a new cross-platform open source graphics library, based on Small Basic’s library, with a typed API crafted for the sharp languages, F# and C#. Drawing graphics is quick and easy:GraphicsWindow.FillEllipse(10,10,300,300) And when you ask FunSh[...]

This week I ran a half-day hands on games development session at the Progressive .Net Tutorials hosted by Skills Matter in London. I believe this was the last conference to be held in Goswell Road before the big move to an exciting new venue. My session [...]