Kathleen's Weblog : F#

Discriminated Unions in F#

kmcgrath — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:09:47 GMT

In this video interview, Gordon Hogenson explains discriminated unions in F# and demos the functionality. You can also learn more in the topic Discriminated Unions (F#)

See the video: Discriminated Unions in F#

--Kathleen

Video: Active Patterns (F#)

kmcgrath — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:04:43 GMT

As a continuation of featuring patterns in F#, this is part 2 of an interview with programming writer, Gordon Hogenson. In this interview he describes Active Patterns, which can be used to customize and extend F#’s pattern matching capabilities.

See the Video: Active Patterns

--Kathleen

Video: Using Patterns and Match Expressions in F#

kmcgrath — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:05:47 GMT

This week, I’m featuring the topics: Patterns and Match Expressions. I interviewed Gordon Hogenson, a programming writer on the Visual Studio User Education team, who walks us through some of standard patterns in F#, and he also explains the use of the match expression to control branching based on patterns in data.

See the Video: Patterns and Match Expressions in F#

--Kathleen

Creating Your First F# Program with Visual Studio 2010

kmcgrath — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:31:21 GMT

This week, I'm highlighting the Visual Studio help topic: Walkthrough: Creating Your First F# Program with Visual Studio. This topic gives a great introduction to some of the features and syntax of F#. I've also created a video that takes you through some of the basics. I show you how to declare simple variables, to write and test functions, to create tuples and lists.

See video: Creating Your First F# Program in Visual Studio 2010

-- Kathleen