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Sometimes, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) can be tough going. Whilst things will often work straight out of the box, customisation can quickly get complicated. Equally though, the solution can sometimes turn out to be pretty simple but it is the...

Following on from my previous posts on html5 animation and reflection effects, I thought I'd put it all together and create a carousel. Firstly, I create a JavaScript pseudo class called CarouselImage. This takes an image url and draws it at a given co...

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 a more complete Project Template that I could use. The template...

As I mentioned in my previous post, Array.Parallel sort functions demonstrating a Merge Sort using Barrier , I wanted to continue the parallel sort examples with a Quicksort using the Task Parallel Libraries. F#, as do all functional languages, lend themselves...

In carousel and coverflow type controls, you often see a “reflection” type effect. This is normally done by transforming an image to mirror the original then applying an alpha gradient to this (i.e. progressively increasing the transparency...

In a previous post I talked about a mechanism for Parallel Process Execution with Conditional Completion . This code was a direct translation from a C# pattern. However it is worth noting that the Command pattern is not actually necessary in functional...

Recently I have been working a lot with the Task Parallel Libraries. In doing so, in F#,  you will quickly learn that one has to perform quite a bit of casting. As such I have found it useful to define some wrapper members that abstract these casting...

With the addition of the SQL Server date and time types, I have often found myself needing to create a datetime (or datetime2) value based on the addition of a date and a time value. However, there is no built-in function for such an operation. There...

In all the previous discussions around FSharpChart, samples have been shown within F# Interactive. I wanted to spend a few moments and demonstrate how FSharpChart can be consumed within a WinForms application, and how chart properties can be modified...