Right in time for the first F# in Education Workshop in Boston, I’m very glad to announce that the long-awaited source code drop for an F# 2.0 compiler and core library are now available, as part of the F# PowerPack . This release reinforces...

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),...

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...

[ Update: Robert pickering has a very nice summary of using asynchonous workflows with web services ] F# 1.9.2.9 includes a pre-release of F# asynchronous workflows . In this blog post we'll take a look at asynchronous workflows and how you might use...

Last year, the head of the Microsoft’s Developer Division, S. Somasegar, announced that Microsoft had begun investing in F# as one of Microsoft’s supported languages on the .NET platform. I am now thrilled to announce one result of this investment: F#...

One of the things we added to F# in version 1.9.2 is a syntax for computation expressions . These are a generalization of the sequence expressions added in F# 1.9.1. In this post I'll drill down on some more technical details on sequence expressions and...

I’m very pleased to announce the availability of the F# September 2008 CTP Release , launched via the new MSDN F# Developer Center . This release represents an important step in the evolution of the F# language as we progress it towards a fully supported...

Recently I had the pleasure of talking with Mike Hall and a DV Camera for an hour, the end result being two F# videos/interviews recently posted on Channel 9 . There are two parts: Interview by Mike Hall The F# WebCrawler and DirectX demos ...

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...

[ Note: if installing F# for Mono, you must download mono.snk. The location of this file has changed since release, you can now find it at http://github.com/mono/mono/raw/master/mcs/class/mono.snk ] The F# team are very pleased to announce the update...

[ Note: An update to this release has been announced: see version 1.9.1.9 at http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2007/05/06/f-1-9-1-9-available-currently-msi-only-includes-overloaded-numeric-conversion-functions-and-checked-arithmetic.aspx ] I am very...

I'm very glad to announce the availability of drafts of Chapters 2-7 of Expert F#, of a book on F# which I'm currently in the process of co-authoring (thanks to James Huddleston at Apress for permission to post these). This is one of two F# books planned...

[ 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...

Over the years I've been fortunate enough to work on several different projects. F# is ongoing, has several different aspects (FP, OO, async, units-of-measure etc.) and quite high-visiblity, but perhaps the one that was most timely, most foundational...

F# is both a parallel and a reactive language. By this we mean that running F# programs can have both multiple active evaluations (e.g. .NET threads actively computing F# results), and multiple pending reactions (e.g. callbacks and agents waiting to react...

I'm glad to announce the availability of a draft paper on F# Active Patterns, co-authored with James Margetson and Gregory Neverov. I've included the draft as an attachment to this post. In the paper we cover How we combine total, partial and parameterized...

[ 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...

In part 3 of this series, we explore lightweight , reactive agents in F# and look at some typical design patterns associated with these agents, including isolated internal state . Part 1 describes how F# is a parallel and reactive language with...

I’m pleased to announce that F# 1.1.13 is now available! You can download this release from http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/release.aspx . This is an exciting release, containing many important enhancements to the language that make F# programming...

John Liao has an interesting series of F# programming posts, with lots of samples. Many of the WPF topics are taken from Petzold's book Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation . Interactive exploration...

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...

The F# team are thrilled to announce that Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 is now available , including the latest version of F#. Today we are also releasing a matching F# May 2009 CTP for use with Visual Studio 2008 ( MSI , ZIP ). Further below is a screen shot...

[ Note: if installing F# for Mono, you must download and resign with mono.snk. ] We've just published a minor update to the F# 2.0 Free Tools release. (The free tools release includes the tools for using F# with Visual Studio 2008 and/or Visual Studio...

Pieter Breed has been asking some useful questions on the F# list recently about using the "Map" type. I really appreciate it when people take the time to let us know when data structures are tricky to learn to use in F#. Looking at Pieter's blog made...

The first "technology preview" relese of F# 1.1 will be released in the next few days. This is an exciting time for the project, and we're sure you'll enjoy the additions we've made to the language, the libraries and the interactive development environment...