September, 2012

The F# team is excited to announce that F# Tools for Visual Studio 2012 Express for Web is now available! Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web (available here ) is a free development environment that programmers can use to build projects such as ASP...

Note: See the F# Open Source Group for the latest on Open Source and Cross-Platform F# As announced by the Visual F# team t oday at StrangeLoop 2012 , the open source code drop for F# 3.0 is now available! This code drop comes right on the heels...

In this blog post, I show off a number of F# integration features in Visual Studio 2012, by walking through an end-to-end scenario of authoring and testing an F# library. The code itself is not the focus; rather, I’ll focus on the IDE tooling as...

[ Update: the Freebase type provider is now available as part of the FSharp.Data NuGet package. The namespace has changed from "Samples.DataStore.Freebase" to "FSharp.Data" ] Part 1 - The Freebase Type Provider Sample - Integrating Internet-Scale Data...

Tip for the day: If you get the error ""Type provider assembly ... is not trusted and will not be loaded for security reasons" and you want to explicitly opt-in to trusting it, then Go to the Tools --> Options --> F# Tools --> Type Providers...

F# 3.0 is included as part of Visual Studio 2012 and comes with a gallery of community contributed online templates for F#. Time to explore! One online template is "F#/C# MVC 4" using ASP.NET Web API . Let's use this template to create a HTTP REST...

The "Cloud Numerics" Lab from SQL Azure Labs has been refreshed . To quote the Cloud Numerics Team: Today we are announcing a refresh of the Microsoft Codename "Cloud Numerics" Lab. We want to thank everyone who participated in the initial Lab,...

[ Update: the Freebase type provider is now available as part of the FSharp.Data NuGet package. The namespace has changed from "Samples.DataStore.Freebase" to "FSharp.Data" ] Part 1 - The Freebase Type Provider Sample - Integrating Internet-Scale Data...

[ Update: the Freebase type provider is now available as part of the FSharp.Data NuGet package. The namespace has changed from "Samples.DataStore.Freebase" to "FSharp.Data" ] Part 1 - The Freebase Type Provider Sample - Integrating Internet-Scale Data...

[ Update: the Freebase type provider is now available as part of the FSharp.Data NuGet package. The namespace has changed from "Samples.DataStore.Freebase" to "FSharp.Data" ] Part 1 - The Freebase Type Provider Sample - Integrating Internet-Scale Data...