Dan Mohl from the F# community has added some F# Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight) templates on Visual Studio Gallery. Screen shot below. Cheers! don (Note: A WP7 FSharp.Core.dll has been included as part of these templates. It is also part of the Microsoft...

The F# team are very pleased to announce the update of August 2010 release of the F# 2.0 free download MSI and ZIP . This release enables .NET 4.0 development with the MSI and ZIP releases of F# 2.0. This is an important release for the F# community,...

Over the years at the F# team we've managed to keep in touch with many of F# users, including individuals, universities and corporations. This is one of the things that makes the work really interesting! The F# community is growing steadily, and this...

Yesterday Matt Moloney posted a nice implementation of the "Memento" pattern , which implements an undo/redo stack. Significant pieces are The state is held in an agent . This is not 100% needed, but makes for a nice example of using agents in this way...

People often ask me about GPGPU (General Purpose GPU) programming with F#. One project you might like to take a look at is Brahma , which lets you compile C# expression trees to the GPU. When combined with the F# Power Pack support for converting F# quotations...

One of the things I've been remiss in doing is advertising the existence of some key F# templates for use with Visual Studio. First, if you have Visual Studio 2010, you can access many of these templates simply by going "New Project --> Online Templates...

We are now seeking applications for two contract positions within MSR to extend the reach of F# programming! Contract length: 3-6 months Hiring Group: Microsoft Research, Redmond Location: Redmond, US or Cambridge UK. Possibility to work remotely. F#...

[ Update: Luca says the jobs are now filled ] Luca Bolognese at Credit Suisse reports that they are now looking to hire 6 F# programmers to work on the new generation of trader tools in London and New York. I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with...

There is a nice article by Luke Hoban called F# Fundamentals in the latest edition of the MSDN magazine . F# is a new, functional and object-oriented programming language for the Microsoft .NET Framework, and it’s integrated into this year’s...

Quantifa ( www.quantifa.org ) is an F# open-source library for quantitative finance and risk management Project Page on SourceForge.net https://sourceforge.net/projects/quantifa/ Quantifa can be viewed as a functional programming version of QuantLib and...

The next meetup of the F#unctional London Meetup Group will be held on July 28 , with Zach Bray talking on Agile Acceptance Testing with F# Using the example of a recent project that successfully added new implied price functionality to a Broker Trading...

Since we've launched F# in Visual Studio 2010, we've often said "use F# for your core logic, and do the GUI with designer tools, generating some C# or Visual Basic". Case after case is arising where people are doing just this - writing AI engines in F#...

A customer case study in the use of F# has been made available on www.microsoft.com . Enjoy! Don P.S. The company in question has a policy of anonymity, a common restriction in this sector. Financial Services Firm Banking Firm Uses Functional Language...

Laurent Le Brun has updated the F# mode for Emacs . Enjoy! If you haven't tried it yet, here are the main features: Syntax highlighting. Indentation. The mode knows where blocks begin and end, and tries to correctly indent your code. F# Interactive support...

Hari Sopal is looking for F# and C# programmers to form part of a team for financial programming with F#. Details below! T he usual disclaimer: regular readers of this blog know that I post F# jobs from time to time, as a service to the F# community ...

Laurent Le Brun has a very nice blog post on cross-platform graphics programming with F# and OpenGL . I love OpenGL but, until now, I used it only in C++ (plus one quick test in OCaml). I wanted to try it with F#. As OpenGL is a portable library, the...

Matt Harrington and others have started a San Francisco Bar Area F# Users Group . The inaugural meeting was around 10 days ago, and the group now has quite a few signed up members. SF# is a group of developers in the San Francisco Bay Area who have an...

Last Thursday FUSE Labs UK launched Emporia , a social stream reader for users who want to "view the social web" through a lens of preferences, with a focus on Twitter . Think of it as providing a recommender system on top of the world of the social web...

Today I spent the afternoon with Manuel Serrano, designer of Hop , a Scheme variation for cross-tier web programming, targeting JVM and Javascript. This is highly related to WebSharper , which lets you program HTML/Javascript/Ajax with F#. I was very...

Dmitry Lomov from the F# team has announced the May 2010 version of the F# PowerPack : Today we release a new version of F# PowerPack - an open-source collection of libraries and tools for use with F# programming language provided by F# team at Microsoft...

F# on Silverlight 4 is here! Dmitry has the full details : Earlier this week we have released F# runtime for Silverlight 4 as part of Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 (this is a single download that contains everything you need to...

I'm very pleased to announce that Expert F# 2.0 is now heading to the printing presses! Expert F# 2.0 is freshly revised for F# 2.0 , released in April 2010. We've also incuded new material on units of measure and Windows Presentation Foundation, and...

Readers of this blog will know that I sometimes post links to jobs as a service to the F# community. A colleague pointed out that Fitch Solutions are looking for an entry-level F# programmer to develop credit derivative pricing and hedging models in F#...

[ Note, if you want to use the free download of F# 2.0, you should use the August 2010 release of the F# 2.0 free download MSI and ZIP . This release extends the existing availability of free-for-use F# programming tools to .NET 4.0. ] Today sees the...

It is with sadness that I mention the death of Professor Robin Milner, the great British computer scientist, who passed away 11 days ago. In addition to his ground breaking work of LCF (Logic for Computable Functions) and CCS and many other seminal contributions...