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Expert F#

What's a better book to read when learning F#?

Essential WPF

Thus far the best book I've read on WPF. Gets right down to working with WPF and the goals/history.

Purely Functional Data Structures

Reading this book makes me feel like I'm back in college. It will really get your mind going and is best read with a whiteboard handy.


October 2006 - Posts

Using PowerShell to automate redundant tasks
It's nice to have powershell when you need to do a lot of redundant file work. I'm use Subversion as the source code control backing for a lot of my hobby projects. I have pretty much all the code I've ever written as a hobby or for school stored in SVN. Read More...

Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 3:54 PM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

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Responding to Windows Shutdown
.Net 2.0 Added a lot in the way of allowing programmers to easily interact with Windows. One of the best additions is the Microsoft.Win32.SystemEvents class. It holds events for a lot of system relatied events (hence the name). A common scenario I see Read More...

Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 6:19 PM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

Custom ComboBox
This is another forum request. I've seen multiple requests from users who are looking to customize the drop down window for the ComboBox control. There is no builtin way to do this with the existing control. Instead you must create a custom solution. Read More...

Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 12:17 AM by Jared Parsons | 2 Comments

PowerShell Tutorial
PowerShell is an exciting product coming out of Microsoft. It's a shell technology many old *nix junkies will find refreshing and very intuitive. It's based on .Net and has a syntax feels like a mix between Pearl, C# and VB. I've blogged about it before Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:24 PM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

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