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One of my current hobby projects, VsVim , requires me to make a lot of calls between F# and C# projects. The core Vim engine is a pure F# solution based on Visual Studio’s new editor. It additionally has a small hosting layer and a large test
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While updating my VsVim editor extensions for Beta2 [1] I got hit by a change in the way F# exposed discriminated unions in metadata. My extension consists of a core F# component with a corresponding set of unit tests written in C#. It’s mostly
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Occasionally the debate will come as to when it's OK to use type inference in order to declare a variable. There appear to be three groups in this debate. Whenever it's possible Only when it's absolutely clear what the type is Never, type inference
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One action I find frustrating in C# is where a particular action needs to be taken based off of the type of a particular object. Ideally I would like to solve this with a switch statement but switch statements only support constant expressions in C# so
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Really this guideline is a bit longer but putting it all in a blog title seemed a bit too much. The full guideline should read: "If a generic class constructor arguments contain types of all generic parameters, provide a static method named
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One of the limitations of C# type inference is that you cannot use it to infer the type of a lambda expression. For example, the following code will not compile var f = () => 4; Normally this is not too much of an issue because you can just explicitly
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