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Friday, June 26, 2009 2:56 AM

ICFP Programming Contest 2009

This year’s ICFP Programming Contest starts today. We’ve got a team participating, any other F# teams out there? Last year, I posted an F# implementation of the 2006 ICFP contest problem , which was an amazing and complex set of puzzles inside a custom
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Friday, June 26, 2009 12:46 AM

F# in Silverlight

Over the last couple years, there has been an explosion of interest in Silverlight. As a .NET-based runtime, it is possible to compile Silverlight applications with any .NET language, and we’ve seen a lot of F# developers using F# in Silverlight. However,
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:40 PM

F# on Windows Azure

Windows Azure was announced yesterday, and along with it, the first CTP of the SDK and Visual Studio tools .  If you haven’t yet tried it, go take a look .  On top of serving as a hosting service for web applications, Azure also provides a really
Posted by LukeH | 5 Comments
Friday, October 10, 2008 2:47 PM

Standard Deviation and Event-based Programming

A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to do a really fun presentation on F# at the .NET Meetup in New York. At the end, I got a great question, which I talked about a little at the presentation, but thought I’d talk about further in a blog post. The
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 12:48 PM

F# September 2008 CTP - Known Issues

We released the F# CTP a few weeks ago, and have been receiving tons of great feedback from F# developers since. Here are some of the common issues which we've been asked about. We'll continue to add on to this list as any new issues are raised. Please
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:37 AM

ICFP Programming Contest

This years' installment of the ICFP Programming Contest is coming up this weekend. For those who haven't had the chance to try out this programming contest before, I definitely recommend it. I've done the contest 3 of the last 5 years, and each time has
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:30 AM

F# at TechEd Orlando 2008

Last week I was down in Orlando for the 2008 US TechEd Developer conference. It was a great conference. This year TechEd was split into two seperate conferences, one for the Developer audience (last week) and another for the IT audience (this week). The
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Monday, May 05, 2008 10:50 PM

Huffman Coding with F#

I recall my sense of awe when I first wrote a simple compression application using Huffman Coding a few years ago for a school assignment. Compression is one of those things that just kind of feels like magic - you get to take something, and make it smaller
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Monday, April 14, 2008 9:58 AM

F# Session at TechEd Israel

I've had the opportunity to do a lot of F# presentations recently, which has been really great. Over the last few months, I've done presentations at the Financial Services Developer Conference in New York, at the Lang.NET conference in Redmond, and at
Posted by LukeH | 3 Comments
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:57 PM

F#

A few weeks back, Soma blogged about an increased investment by the Microsoft Developer Division in the F# language . Part of this increased investment has been the creation of a small team in Redmond to work with F#'s creator Don Syme to bring F# into
Posted by LukeH | 25 Comments
Monday, October 01, 2007 10:34 PM

Taking LINQ to Objects to Extremes: A fully LINQified RayTracer

Not too long ago I blogged about a C# raytracer which took advantage of a lot of C#3.0 language constructs. However, you may have noticed that it did not actually use LINQ query expressions all that much. Well, after discussing this with a coworker on
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Sunday, August 19, 2007 5:33 PM

Monadic Parser Combinators using C# 3.0

Parser combinators are an idea that I enjoy every time I go back and look at again. They are an approach to building parsers by composing very simple atomic parsers into bigger and bigger units which can ultimately express real world grammars. This idea
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 4:13 PM

C# 3.0 and CodeDOM

The CodeDOM is a very handy .NET API which allows you to programatically compile code using the .NET compilers and programatically construct code without just pasting together strings. With the new version of the language, we've heard a numer of questions
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Friday, June 29, 2007 6:54 PM

.NET Framework Multitargeting in Visual Studio 2008 (aka Orcas)

One of the really great features I worked on for our upcoming release is ".NET Framework Multitargeting" for Visual Studio. This allows you to build applications targeting any of these frameworks using Visual Studio 2008: .NET Framework 2.0 - released
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 10:42 AM

C#3.0 Session at TechEd2007 - Code Samples

I just presented my C#3.0 session at TechEd Orlando titled "DEV346 - Microsoft Visual C# Under the Covers: An In-Depth Look at C# 3.0". The talk introduces the new C# language features and takes a tour behind the scenes of LINQ to Objects to see how C#
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