Countdown to F# CTP

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a-foton » Countdown to F# CTP — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:01:57 GMT

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re: Countdown to F# CTP

Jon Harrop — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:20:19 GMT

An exiting new language feature? ;-)

re: Countdown to F# CTP

Luke Marshall — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:19:46 GMT

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

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wil2200 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:35:01 GMT

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

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Piet — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:50:21 GMT

I like to count down. Where do I start.

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Richard Kimber — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:50:16 GMT

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

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Mirrorer — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:49:25 GMT

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

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ChrSmith — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:20:46 GMT

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.

re: Countdown to F# CTP

Nick — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:29:48 GMT

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?

re: Countdown to F# CTP

ChrSmith — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:57:43 GMT

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.