Here's a little picture gallery of intellisense screenshots from the newly released F# 1.0.1. For example, CodeTips help you see the types that are inferred for F# and .NET identifiers. This one shows some Intellisense functionality: pressing Ctrl-J brings...

F# is a research project from Microsoft Research. It is not a Microsoft product . All opinions are my own. All content is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. I'm pleased to announce that a major new release of F# is now available...

I recently posted a note to the F# list on how to get the effect of typeof(...) in F# code through the use of F#'s inline Common IL. The code I used has now been beautifully explained by Alejandro Serrano (who assures me he is a high-school student from...

Jack Palevich has just emailed to the F# list recently with a very cool tutorial on using F# with DirectX. I've got the feeling that F# and DirectX will turn out to be an excellent combination - I've been playing with some DirectX samples recently, but Jack's is clearer and more to the point, and what's more is actually up on the web rather than being somewhere on my computer :-). I've suggested some refinements to Jack's code - this is exactly the kind of situation where F#'s value recurs...

I thought I would mention some details of the features I've been working on for the next preview release of F# 1.0. Firstly, the main thing: intellisense. This has been a joy to implement......

I'm amazed how fast news travels in the world of blogging - an old colleague like Jonathan found out about this blog and posted some very positive comments about F# even while I thought it was still my little secret!

Note: F# is a research project from Microsoft Research, see the project website at http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/fsharp.aspx and a clarification at http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/fsharp-ack.aspx . It is not a Microsoft product...