[ 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...

[ 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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Training is an important part of adopting F# successfully in any large organization. There are several options for F# training currently available, but one recent addition is an online training course in F# by Pluralsight , authored by Oliver Sturm...

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...

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...

The recently announced Cloud Numerics library is a great fit for F# analytical computing. The Cloud Numerics team recently posted some examples of how to use this library in F#, and learn how to do distributed numerics on Azure with F# ! As always...

Visual F#团队很高兴地宣布中国的CSDN博客正式成立，我们的目的是为了方便中国的程序员更早、更快、更多的了解F#，并从F#的实际应用中受益。 最初，F#是Don Syme博士在微软剑桥研究院的一个研究项目，它继承自OCaml和C#和Python和Haskell语言。它是一种函数式的、面向对象的.NET编程语言，使用户能够编写简单的代码来解决复杂的问题。很多用户反映使用Ｆ#后代码量减少到原来的四分之一，并且程序的错误率大大减少。 我们的工作主要是翻译一些F#专家的博客，制作一系列F#的教程...

As announced at the Microsoft Research 20th Anniversary event in Cambridge UK, we have updated the F# 2.0 compiler source code drop to include changes related to the www.tryfsharp.org web application. The code drop is the compiler\2.0\Aug2011.1 directory...

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...

The VP of our Developer Division, S. Somasegar , has written a great blog entry on the new programming language technologies in Visual Studio 11. There is a great section on F# which really highlights the innovations that we continue to bring to the product...

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...

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 very excited to pass on the news that Tomas Petricek's Real-World F# Programming Articles are now available on MSDN ! Congratulations to Tomas, Keith, Yin and Gordon who have worked so hard on this. Here's the chapter outline: ...

Carl Nolan has posted another great online template : If you are like me and often use console applications for a variety of purposes you would have found the F# template not much use (in fact a blank code file). As such I decided to put together...

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...

I’m glad to announce that we’ve activated an MSDN forum for all topics related to F# . We’re adding an MSDN form to the F# community mix because we know that a large proportion of the F# community strongly associate with the MSDN...

The F# team has a full-time position available for a Software Development Engineer in Test. Here is the link . Please email jackhu@microsoft.com if you are interested. You must also fill in the online forms to apply Standard job title...

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...

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...

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...