In a previous post , I presented a background job manager in F# using the MailboxProcessor . In this post, I'll try to keep the number of background jobs equal to the number of processors on the machine. The number of processors that is meaningful here...

In a previous post , I created an F# agent that runs background computations. However, it was limited in that it allowed the user no control over the jobs. Really, I want a more flexible system that allows the user to cancel currently running jobs. To...

In a previous post , I started out with some simple F# agents. As we saw previously, agents process messages in a queue and perform actions in response. In the previous post, I created a simple console application that starts an agent, and then starts...

In my previous post , I showed a code snippet with a very simple F# agent console application. You run the app from the console, and every time you enter a line of text, it generates a new message and posts it to the message queue of an F# agent. An agent...

I'm the technical writer who wrote most of the MSDN documentation for F#, and I decided to start a less formal channel of communication to share some of what I'm learning about F# and associated technologies. But first a few notes about how to let...