Recently an advertisement that was sent by MEDIT to the OCaml list. The positions are for development in OCaml, but since they explicitly advertise for both OCaml and MS-VisualStudio.NET skills it seems likely that F# skills would also rate highly. ...

[ Note: this post is now out-of-date: drafts of Chapters 2-7 are now available ] I'm very glad to announce the availability of an early draft of Chapter 2 of a book on F# which I'm currently in the process of co-authoring. The projected title of...

We're very pleased to announce that F# 1.1.12 is available for download . (note: since the time of writing this has been updated to F# 1.1.12.5) This release incorporates a significant number of minor improvements combined with two new features: a...

Greg Neverov (inventor of the C# dialect Metaphor and an intern at MSR Cambridge this summer) has been working on an experimental new language feature called "active patterns". This topic has come up on The Hub , so I thought I would mention a bit about...

Are you interested in working for three months at Microsoft Research , Cambridge, on a project related to F#? MSR Cambridge now takes interns year-round, not just in the summer months. We are keen to attract motivated and well-qualified folk to work with...

Tomas writes on The Hub : ASP.NET web applications in F# CodeDOM and providers CodeDOM (Code Document Object Model) is set of objects (located in System.CodeDom namespace) that can be used for representing logical structure of .NET source...

The Microsoft MVP Tomas Petricek has been continuing his exploration of F# LINQ-style quotations to implement a first cut at an F# CodeDom provider, with a view to building entire web applications in F# alone. He's posted a blog entry on The Hub (n.b...

Tomas Petricek has posted his slides and demonstrations from an F# presentation he gave at his university recently. This follows up on his F# quotations visualizer and his introduction to doing transformations with F# quotations . Tomas is a C# MVP...

The F# Hub is a community site at www.hubfs.net , and has been full of interesting posts recently. For example, you can read Tomas on working with the F# quotations library (cross-posted from here ), Robert on using F# with Windows Presentation Foundation...

Rob has written a fantastic introduction to using F# with Windows Presentation Framework , showing nice the combination of 3D graphics, XAML and functional programming.

Dominic has trumped me again - while I'm busy writing media-savvy samples like "1+1 = 2" he goes and writes a podcasting client in F# . Other gems on his wonderfully eclectic blog are the unlikely combination of the world's shortest escalator and a Writing...

Julien Laugel has revamped his sample showing how to use the dnAnalytics library with F#, and it's now up on The Hub . Marcus from dnAnalytics has also been taking a look at F# recently.

As reported by the Hub Father, F# 1.1.11.6 is available. This is a "release candidate", which means we put it up to see if it meets the standards of the early adopters who download and install it. Since posting on Friday we've had a few very minor issues reported - and release 1.1.11.7 will be available in about 48 hours. Downloads for both F# 1.1.11.6 and 1.1.10.4 may be found here. Here's the list of fixes we've made between F# 1.1.11.6 and F# 1.1.11.7: ......

Chad Albrecht has written an article for the recent edition of .NET Developers Journal called F# on a Virtual Super Computer . It uses the excellent Alchemi grid computing framework from my the University of Melbourne (a wonderful institution from my...

Rob Burke has just written a blog entry on F# : It was great to have Rob to visit - I first met Rob when you presented his Symphony system - an amazing example of .NET in action! Rob is currently an all-round developer guru working with Microsoft in Ireland...

I’m very glad to announce a new F# community initiative called “The Hub”, hosted at http://cs.hubfs.net , and known as “hubFS”. Broadly speaking, this site aims to be “THE place for F# on the web”. I think this is great – we need a broad reach on the...

Ralf Herbrich is a co-leader of MSR Cambridge's Applied Games Group , which specializes in using machine learning techniques such as TrueSkill to improve the player experience of XBox Live and other applications. He's now also an F# user and advocate...

The text of this post is also available as an article , which I'll modify with latest material on this topic as time goes on. As of version 1.1.10 , F# now supports first-class , composable events . Here 'events' is used in the same sense as in the...

Just to mention that F# version 1.1.10.4 has been released (in truth it's been up for a week - I neglected to write a blog entry before I went on my brief vacation, though it was announced on the F# List ) The most important thing with this release...

Christopher Barwick (aka optionsScalper ) recently gave a talk to the Wisconsin INETA group entitled F# - An Introduction Under an Application of Quantitative Finance . The slides are up on his blog, and he promises the code samples will follow soon to...

[ Updated Note: Visual Studio 2003 users : this release has an installation problem when used with Visual Studio 2003. Please see the details here for a workaround . ] [ Updated Note: Virtual PC users : The good man at JJB Research has noted that...

Here's a taste of some great new functionality that will be in the next release of F#, which we should have out sometime in the next week or so. The cool thing here is not just the pretty graphics (which you've been able to do in F# for a while now),...

Jim Huddleston at Apress has been looking into F# and has very much liked what he's seen. He's interested in publishing books and articles on F# and functional programming - a great opportunity to use your new-found F# skills to earn some money! Here...

Stephen Tse of UPenn has just completed his cross-compilation of FJavaC with F# and OCaml, using F# 1.1 on Mono/Linux (he's made some notes about using F# with Mono/Linux on the F# Wiki - some further notes are below). To quote their website, FJavaC...

In case you haven't heard, LINQ (Language Integrated Queries) is one of Microsoft's project codename for adding a range of features to C# and Visual Basic to allow programmers to write "language-integrated query, set, and transform operations". .... The latest release of F# (v. 1.1.8.1) contains everything you need to do some LINQ programming in conjunction with the C# LINQ "Tech Preview" release for VS 2005, including a translation of some of the 101 Samples (you can also use the command li...