Tim Ng : F#

F# Beta 1 Release

TimNg — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:54:49 GMT

F# beta 1 is now live!

See Don and Brian’s blog post for lots more information.

In particular, on the F# team, we have worked really hard to bring not one but two releases! We are releasing a fully integrated F# experience into Visual Studio 2010 targeting the .NETFX 4.0, as well as an update to the F# CTP for Visual Studio 2008 that targets .NETFX 2.0/3.5.

We have done a lot of work over the last year, and while the beta is just a stepping stone to RTM, we hope you like what you see in the beta. The F# release notes on Don’s page just highlights some of the great work the F# team has done. We hope that F# will help make your functional programming life enjoyable and productive on the .NET platform.

And as always feel free to send questions my way!

Download the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 release here.

Download the F# CTP addon for Visual Studio 2008 here.

Learn more about F# here.

Happy New Year! And a small change for me

TimNg — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:44:49 GMT

Happy New Year! 2008 just flew by for me. And looking forward, there's a small change I wanted to let you guys know about.

As many of you know, I've been the dev lead for the VB compiler team since Visual Studio 2008. A few months ago, I decided to try something new for a variety of reasons, and I decided to join the likes of Luke, Luca, Don, Chris, Brian, and Jomo on the F# team. Since September, I've been the "engineering" lead for the F# team, and I am now responsible for helping to ship F# in Visual Studio 2010. It's been a fun journey so far - working on the F# team has been awesome.

As a result of this change, the coverage on my blog will shift a bit more to F# programming, especially over the next while. During the last few months, I've been learning more and more about F#, and I'll probably blog a little bit about interesting things for F# from a .NET developer's perspective that I've learned, and why F# might be interesting for you.

You can download the latest F# CTP for Visual Studio 2008 here.

And as always, feel free to let me know if you have any questions or comments!

SVC CodeCamp F# Talk

TimNg — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:33:01 GMT

Over the weekend, I had a chance to go to the SVC codecamp and give a couple talks. Codecamp was fun, and it was great to meet many of you that I had a chance to talk to. Feel free to email me if you have any questions about any of the things I presented on or any of the discussions that we had!

One of the talks that I did was a talk called "Introducing F#". The talk was largely based on the PDC talk that Luca gave, which you can view online (and he does a much better job explaining things then I do!). He also has a link to download the samples that, for the most part, my samples were based on. So feel free to check out his blog and check out his presentation on F#.

(I will be publishing my samples for my LINQ talk soon : I need a couple more days to clean them up)

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