http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/04/04/tackling-the-f-productization.aspxOver the last few months the F# team has been diving deep into the technical work needed to productize F#. In this post I'd like to give a bit of a picture for what that means and how the team has been ramping up on our work. Firstly, the team! In Cambridgeen-GBCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/04/04/tackling-the-f-productization.aspx#8357945Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:57:48 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8357945Torkel<p>Great news, nice with better visual studio 2008 support. </p>http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/04/04/tackling-the-f-productization.aspx#8358461Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:44:16 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8358461namin<p>Great! Will the CTP also support Visual Studio 2005?</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/04/04/tackling-the-f-productization.aspx#8364139Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:56:20 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8364139Pandamonial<p>This is such exciting news! Congratulations to the F# team! I can't wait for CTP!</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/04/04/tackling-the-f-productization.aspx#8364325Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:44:49 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8364325O'Reilly Windows DevCenter Blog<p>Don Syme's WebLog on F# and Other Research Projects : Tackling the F# Productization be matched by a draft of the F# Language Specification...</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/04/04/tackling-the-f-productization.aspx#8366694Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:18:30 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8366694Marek Bortkiewicz<p>And what about Unicode in new version F#</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/04/04/tackling-the-f-productization.aspx#8368465Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:39:48 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8368465Ralf Juergensen<p>That sounds great!</p> <p>But will the compiler and interactive shell still be working with mono?</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/04/04/tackling-the-f-productization.aspx#8382439Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:14:31 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8382439Granville Barnett<p>This is awesome news!</p> <p>F# + great VS tooling support = magic :-)</p> <p>The msbuild task will be a welcome addition as well.</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/04/04/tackling-the-f-productization.aspx#8382457Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:19:50 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8382457Chris Smith's completely unique view<p>As Don and Brian have mentioned, we are working towards an April Update to the F# research release as</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/04/04/tackling-the-f-productization.aspx#8410581Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:45:11 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8410581Mike<p>When it's done, I'll use it for sure. I'm the type of person that is most comfortable within the IDE and stuff like projects is important to me. </p> <p>I'm Looking forward to learning a new language, there should be much more books about F# once it's out of research.</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/04/04/tackling-the-f-productization.aspx#8418541Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:03:59 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8418541Philipp Schumann<p>Any chance any of the following Visual Studio support features will make it into the &quot;April Update&quot;?</p> <p>- Folders in Projects (in Solution Explorer)</p> <p>- Project References / Build Dependencies</p> <p>- Build Events?</p> <p>Kind of hard building anything major in F# only if that's not supported. Or I'm missing something completely...</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/04/04/tackling-the-f-productization.aspx#8426035Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:22:41 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8426035MichaelGG<p>First, this is great to hear! As it's 25 April, I'm guessing something's right around the corner -- I can't wait!</p> <p>Are there any general plans for F# and designer support? For example, building WPF applications and being able to design in Blend and still get XAML IntelliSense in VS and so on?</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/04/04/tackling-the-f-productization.aspx#8452480Sat, 03 May 2008 02:05:57 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8452480Don Syme's WebLog on F# and Other Research Projects<p>We're very glad to announce the release of F# 1.9.4 , the Spring Refresh of F#, uploaded to the Microsoft</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/04/04/tackling-the-f-productization.aspx#8776120Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:09:35 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8776120Heart of Sharpness (The MSR F# Team's blog at The Hub)<p>The F# team at Microsoft Research and Microsoft are currently working hard towards our planned CTP...</p>