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Sunday, November 08, 2009 5:42 PM

Equality and Comparison Constraints in F#

F# 1.9.7 introduces two new constraints to the F# language to help uncover issues in your code when using equality and comparison operators. In this blog entry we'll take a look at these constraints in a bit more detail. The topics in this blog post are
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 5:46 PM

F# 1.9.7 Language Specification Now Available

The F# 1.9.7 Language Specification is now available, in PDF and HTML , matching the recent release of F# in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2, with matching CTP udpate for Mono and Visual Studio 2008 . The latest language specification can also always be found
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Friday, October 23, 2009 10:58 PM

Language Integrated Query Support in the F# Power Pack

In this post I thought I would give some simple, up-to-date examples of writing queries using the F# Power Pack and executing them via LINQ. The techniques described here also apply to querying any obejcts that support the IQueryable interface. My aim
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:41 PM

Some Smaller Features in the Latest Release of F#

Brian has blogged about some of the smaller features in the latest release of F# which weren't explicitly called out in the detailed release notes. Error and warning messages have unique numbers (in particular replacing the ubiquitous "FS0191") Some common
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Monday, October 19, 2009 10:12 PM

F# in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 is now available ( plus matching F# CTP Update for VS2008)

The latest release of F# is now out! This is included in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 , released today for MSDN Subscribers, with the matching release of the F# CTP for Visual Studio 2008 , and a compiler ZIP for Mono . The detailed release notes are here
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Monday, October 19, 2009 9:44 AM

Release Notes for the F# October 2009 release

(These notes apply to the F# October 2009 CTP update and Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 ) Summary Release F# in Visual Studio2010 Beta2 can build applications for .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5/4.0 and Silverlight 2/3. Updated F# CTP for Visual Studio 2008 F# PowerPack available
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Saturday, October 10, 2009 3:31 PM

F# Tutorial Code and Slides (JAOO 2009 Edition)

One of the great pleasures of my job is to go to conferences like JAOO and present on F# and other topics. This year I presented both a tutorial and a lecture at JAOO 2009 , and I've included the tutorial and lecture slides below! Thanks to everyone who
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Attachment(s): jaoo-2009-fsharp-tutorial-slides-and-code.zip
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 6:58 PM

Detailed Release Notes for the F# May 2009 CTP Update and Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 releases

The main announcement for this release is here . Summary Release F# is integrated into Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 F# in Visual Studio2010 can build applications for .NET 4.0 Beta1 Updated F# CTP for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5 F# PowerPack is
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 6:57 PM

Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 with F# is now available, plus matching F# CTP Update for VS2008

The F# team are thrilled to announce that Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 is now available , including the latest version of F#. Today we are also releasing a matching F# May 2009 CTP for use with Visual Studio 2008 ( MSI , ZIP ). Further below is a screen shot
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Friday, February 27, 2009 4:14 PM

The basic syntax of F#, by Brian

Brian has two very nice posts on the basic syntax of F#. The basic syntax of F# - keywords and constructs The basic syntax of F# - classes, interfaces, and members I have written lots of blog entries about F#, but I haven't yet described the basic syntax
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Friday, February 27, 2009 4:09 PM

Adding Parallel Extensions to F#, from Matt Podwysocki

Matt has a lovely post showing how to define parallel sequences in F# : In many of my presentations lately, I’ve been using the Parallel Extensions for .NET as part of my heavy computations in F#. By doing so, I’m able to speed up some of my heavier computations
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Sunday, January 11, 2009 7:20 PM

F# Programming Contest, by Kean at AutoDesk

Kean over at AutoDesk (think AutoCAD etc.) is running an F# programming contest ! I've included his post below: F# programming contest ... So to start 2009 with a bang (or a pop, at least) I'm going to run a programming contest. The basic idea is to generate
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:15 PM

F# to ship as part of Visual Studio 2010

Last year, the head of the Microsoft’s Developer Division, S. Somasegar, announced that Microsoft had begun investing in F# as one of Microsoft’s supported languages on the .NET platform. I am now thrilled to announce one result of this investment: F#
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Saturday, September 06, 2008 1:32 AM

F# CTP release update

It’s been a week now since we posted the F# September 2008 CTP release, and it’s been fantastic to see the great response from existing and new F# users alike. We’ve received a lot of good feedback too, and a big thank you to everyone who has taken the
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Monday, September 01, 2008 10:21 PM

The F# Operators and Basic Functions

F# comes with a number of essential basic functions and operators pre-defined. For example, even "+" is an operator defined in Microsoft.FSharp.Core.Operators, which is opened by default. Likewise "abs" is a function to take the absolute value of a signed
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