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If you haven't visited stackoverflow.com yet I encourage you to take a trip. It's a great tag based newsgroup system. Check it out.
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The VB Catch syntax has a particular feature not present in C#: When. It allows users to filter expressions based on something other than their type. Any arbitrary code can enter a When block to decide whether or not to handle an Exception Sub Sub1()
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In my previous post I discussed creating an Option style construct for C#/.Net. This post is a followup with the complete code snippet. It’s been updated in response to several bits of feedback I received. Namely Option is now a struct
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F# has a handy method called Unfold. Think of it as the logical opposite of an Aggregate function. Aggregates take a sequence of elements and convert them to a single element. An unfold method will take a single element and turn it into
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Sorry for the terrible pun in the title. I wanted to blog about developing an F# style Option class for C# and I couldn't resist. The basics of an Option class are very straight forward. It's a class that either has a value or doesn't.
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Answer: When PInvoke is involved. I ran across a common error today on stackoverflow regarding P/Invoke that is worth blogging about. The question regarded the translation of a native API with a parameter of type LONG. The user mistakenly used the .Net
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Unfortunately when creating Live Search, the live team did not use a term which could easily be converted to a verb (i.e. google and google-ing). The term "live searching" doesn't really flow well in a hallway conversation nearly as well
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Problem #2 came quite a bit faster. The yield syntax in F# is very similar to the C# iterator syntax and made translating this sample a breeze. As a commenter posted, in problem #1, I would've been better served to use Seq.filter as opposed to Seq.choose
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Beth Massi dropped by my office a couple of months ago and we did a channel 9 video on the PInvoke Interop Assistant . Mainly an overview of the product and a bit of a tutorial. Check out the video here. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/funkyonex/The-P-Invoke-Interop-Assistant
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One of the lacking's of the latest F# CTP is debugger visualization support for the built-in list types. Viewing a list in the debugger is decidedly tedious compared to the mscorlib collection classes. Take the following quick code sample
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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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I've been looking for some new problems to work on in F# to get more comfortable with the language. I've been rather slack of late because of other projects but I had a little bit of time this week. I decided it would be fun to join the crowd
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This is a more amusing than functional debate I enter into from time to time. On a line where you declare a pointer type in C++, where should the * go? Next to the type (i.e. Type* p1;) Next to the variable name (i.e. Type *p1;) Who cares For the moment
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I had a little bit of time this weekend to download the F# CTP. The IDE portion of the CTP is a huge improvement over the previous CTP. In particular the intellisense engine feels much more smooth, is available in new places and has much better
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A few days ago, I recklessly added a [Serialization] attribute to a few of my immutable collection types. I needed to pass data between AppDomain's and adding [Serialization] was the quick and dirty fix. Compiled, ran and I didn't think much
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