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Countdown to F# CTP

In case you didn’t see it over on Brian’s blog, he’s posted a sneak peak at the F# Project System: Part I Part II.

If you’ve used the Visual Studio integrate for our previous releases you might have noticed it was a tad ‘unsavory’. Well the images of the current bits speak for themselves.

And that’s just the tip of the ice berg. The CTP will feature:

  • A substantial improvement / cleanup of the F# libraries
  • An exciting new language feature previously unannounced…
  • MSBuild support
  • Intellisense improvements
  • And more

Hopefully you’re just as excited to get your hands on the new bits as we are to put them online.

Edit: Evidently I need to spend more time proof reading :P

Published Monday, July 28, 2008 3:58 PM by ChrSmith

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Monday, July 28, 2008 7:01 PM by a-foton » Countdown to F# CTP

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Monday, July 28, 2008 8:20 PM by Jon Harrop

# re: Countdown to F# CTP

An exiting new language feature? ;-)

Monday, July 28, 2008 9:19 PM by Luke Marshall

# re: Countdown to F# CTP

Very keen on the CTP... Any clues on the new language feature?!

Monday, July 28, 2008 9:35 PM by wil2200

# re: Countdown to F# CTP

This is freaking AWESOME! The nerd in me is overly excited over this

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:50 AM by Piet

# re: Countdown to F# CTP

I like to count down. Where do I start.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 3:50 AM by Richard Kimber

# re: Countdown to F# CTP

I really can't wait. I have mixed feelings about how sad that makes me though.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:49 AM by Mirrorer

# re: Countdown to F# CTP

What 'bout Compact framework support from the box? Color schemes for fsyacc and fslex files?

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:20 PM by ChrSmith

# re: Countdown to F# CTP

Glad to hear everybody's looking forward to it. As for the questions:

* Hint at the new language feature: it is something that will help you prevent bugs in your code. And depending on the problem domain you work in, it will help you prevent a lot of bugs in your code.

* F# on the Compact Framework out of the box. For CTP this isn't something we've had time to look into, so I suspect you'll need to manually hack a few things. As for down the line, maybe. I don't know if we will provide good tooling support, but (as far as I know) there is nothing preventing us from unblocking this. It's too soon to tell right now.

* Syntax highlighting for FSYacc and FSLex. For CTP we won't have that, and it is unlikely we'll get to that for a while. That would be a great issue to mention on Microsoft's Connect website to see if it is a pain point with other people as well.

Thanks,

-Chris

* Syntax highlighting for FSYacc and FSLex files.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:29 AM by Nick

# re: Countdown to F# CTP

Will the fsproj files released with the CTP provide a FileCodeModel for F# source?  If not is there any plan on providing that in future releases?

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:57 PM by ChrSmith

# re: Countdown to F# CTP

Our CTP release will not provide a FileCodeModel for F# source, and we do not have plans for adding one with the next release of Visual Studio.

It is something we would like to do, but we won't have time for this release.

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