The Visual Studio F# team is excited to announce a preview release of F# 3.0 as part of the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview , announced on Tuesday at the //build/ conference. This preview is available now for all MSDN subscribers . The general release...

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...

Hi, I'm Keith Battocchi, and I'm working on making it easier to use F# for data-rich programming. In my first blog post, I want to highlight some of the basic features of the FSharpChart wrappers that Don blogged about earlier this month . As Don mentioned...

A significant part of F# 3.0 support for F# Information Rich Programming is the F# Type Provider mechanism . An F# type provider is a component that provides types, properties, and methods for use in your program. For more information on F# 3.0 and the...

As a software engineer, I am frequently searching my projects’ source trees for various code snippets, or searching a collection of log files for a particular message, or some other type of text searching activity.  The traditional Windows utility...

As announced on Jason Zander’s blog , Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available for download ! The release includes the Beta version of F# 3.0, which introduces F# Information Rich Programming . We have some new F# features to announce in this Beta release...

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...

Version 3.0 of the F# language (which ships with Visual Studio 2012) has a number of new language features. I expect that most people who follow F# are aware of the two big new language features: Type Providers and LINQ queries , which work together to...

The Visual F# team are glad to announce that we have now updated the F# Language Specification for F# 3.0 ( HTML , PDF ) The aim of this update is to document the language features introduced in F# 3.0. This update covers the extensions to computation...

Today the F# team has released an update to the F# 2.0 Free Tools Release , last updated in August 2010 . This is a relatively small update to bring our free tools release into line with Visual Studio 2010 SP1, announced by Jason Zander here . Visual...

Introduction Several people have asked for more information on how tail calls behave in F#. This blog post will answer many frequently asked questions about tail calls, including why tail calls are important, how to identify them, and how the compiler...

[ Update: the CRM type provider is now available as the FSharpx.TypeProviders.Xrm NuGet package. The namespace has changed from "Samples" to "FSharpx" ] Part 1 - The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type Provider Sample Part 2 - The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type...

[ The CRM type provider sample is available as the FSharpx.TypeProviders.Xrm NuGet package. The namespace has changed from "Samples" to "FSharpx" The updates below are in the process of being transferred into FSharpx package ] Part 1 - The Microsoft...

A Guest Blog in conjunction with Alexandre Radicchi ( alex.radi@gmail.com ) F# is an attractive language to use in Financial Engineering because of its functional-first methodology, succinctness, strong typing, data-integration, stability, maturity...

If you're familiar with the site Try F#, which lets you run F# right in your browser, you'll be happy to hear that the Try F# team has launched Try F# 3.0 today! You will find updated content and tutorials, plus content that is tailored to particular...

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...

IntelliSense is the identifier auto-completion facility in Visual Studio. As a developer, IntelliSense is critical to my productivity, as it allows me to easily work with thousands of functions from different namespaces and classes without having to constantly...

We've previously blogged about FSharpChart , an F# library that makes it easy to use F# for information-rich programming. FSharpChart works well with the Interactive Window, helping you prototype your code quickly. We're happy to announce an update...

[ Update: the CRM type provider is now available as the FSharpx.TypeProviders.Xrm NuGet package. The namespace has changed from "Samples" to "FSharpx" ] Part 1 - The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type Provider Sample Part 2 - The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type...

Through Jack Pappas , the F# Software Foundation (the F# community group also known as fsharp.org ) has recently made F# more readily available on FreeBSD . Some details below, taken from the discussion on the F# Open Source Google Group . Since my...

If you're in the Bay Area, don't miss F# for Machine Learning - a Gentle Introduction and Coding Dojo on Tuesday, May 14 at 6:00pm. The F# Software Foundation also have a collection of links about F# and Machine Learning , as well as related topics...

Hi all, Welcome to the very first post to the F# team blog on MSDN! As the world knows, the F# team loves blogging, even since Jan 2005 , when F# was an MSR project. We've been discussing for a while now the idea of having an F# team blog. Since...

When we released F# Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web last month, we made a short F# launch video available: F# 3.0 Information Rich Programming . The video featured a sample C#/F# MVC4 ASP.NET app named “B-Movie Madness,” which we’ve now made...