hubFS: THE place for F#

When reading data from a SQL database in F#, you have a couple of options. You can use F# implementation of LINQ, which allows you to write queries directly in the F# language or you can use standard ADO.NET classes such as SqlCommand. The second option...

We are happy to announce the availability of WebSharper 2010 Standard - the premier F# web development platform that enables writing rapid, robust, client-based web applications. You can read more on the public announcement page. Your comments are welcome...

This article shows how to use F# for developing ASP.NET web applications using the MVC framework. It also shows how to access data using LINQ in F# and how to simplify web programming using F# meta-programming, modules and records....

With the release of F# 2.0, I just wanted to point people to the F# Developer Center as a primary resource for downloading F# and finding out how to use the language....

F# 2.0 is now available, see the announcement at F# 2.0 release...

F# in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2, plus matching F# CTP Update for VS2008 The latest release of F# is now out! See the post on Don Syme's blog. ...

Spammers are a constant issue when running a public site.  I've taken normal precautions and the site seems relatively clean.  Unfortunately, some of the spammers expect reply emails to undeliverable addresses.  This has caused my hosting...

Now that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is out, it is finally a good time to take a look at one of the (in my opinion) most interesting new features in the new release - the F# language. As all the regular hubFS readers know, F# existed for quite a long time...

Cross posted from blogs.msdn.com The F# team are thrilled to announce that Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 is now available , including the latest version of F#. Today we are also releasing a matching F# May 2009 CTP for use with Visual Studio 2008 (MSI,...

I've been informed by my hosting provider that the data centers where hubFS is hosted will be having scheduled maintenance, potentially causing downtime. This maintenance will occur Friday evening (4/10/2009 after 5pm CDT) and Saturday Daytime (4/11/2009). ...

(This article is based on two articles about the book that I posted to my other blog). If you’ve been reading my blog or seen some my articles, you know that I’m a big fan of the F# language and functional programming style. I’m also often trying to...

Amanda Laucher and Ted Neward talk about F# on a recently released .NET Rocks! podcast (episode 377).  Richard and Carl pose a lot of tough questions.  Amanda and Ted are up to the task and provide a great perspective on functional...

The F# Team has released the F# September 2008 CTP.  Seeing F# followed by "CTP" is outstanding.  Congratulations to Don Syme and his team for steady and consistent work to move F# to another milestone. Read about it here. Download it here....

[ Cross posted from http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/08/28/f-for-scientists-now-available.aspx ] I can't believe I missed posting about this - F# for Scientists is now out! I haven't got my hardcopy just yet, but I read a draft of this...

Introduction F# has the async computation expression for writing parallel programs. Async achieves concurrency by using the CLR ThreadPool to queue work items for each logical thread created in an async expression (e.g., through Async.spawn or Async.parallel)....

The F# team at Microsoft Research and Microsoft are currently working hard towards our planned CTP release of F#. This is a follow up to the 1.9.4 release of F# as a research language. When it comes, this release will be the first release...

(This article is cross-posted from http://tomasp.net/articles/aspnet-in-fsharp.aspx) As I mentioned earlier, I spent three months as an intern in Microsoft Research in Cambridge last year and I was working with Don Syme and James Margetson from the F#...

Using computation expressions to control monitor locks C# has the lock statement to support the use of .NET monitor synchronization. lock(this) { x--; } This curly-brace delimited block of atomic statements is easily identified in code. However having...

I have written a library for using software transactional memory in F#. The library exposes memory transactions as a monad using F#’s new computation expression feature. It can be downloaded here. Software transactional memory (STM) is an approach to...

(After a long hiatus of just lurking and posting to the forums, I am trying to start blogging again.) Like many people, I recently discovered http://projecteuler.net.  The site contains a set of mathematically oriented programming problems that...

Dr. Don Syme and the F# team have provided a "stabilization" release of F#.  It looks like they are starting a "cleanup" in preparation of becoming a product.  Woo Hoo! Dr. Syme's full post is here. The release notes are here. Download it...

On the F# list server over at Microsoft Research, there was a question posted by Lars Johnson about using F# with R.  For whatever reason, I'm not able to post to that list server.  I'm not very good with list servers, so I'll post up my usage...

In my bachelor thesis I included a short introduction that covered all of the important aspects of the F# programming language and I thought that it may be useful to extend it a little bit to cover also a topics that were not important for my thesis and...

The F# team is hiring! We have two positions open right now. The first is a software development engineer specializing in Visual Studio and libraries.  The second is a software development engineer in test. Some extracts from the job description...

[ During the summer the F# team at MSR Cambridge had the pleasure of having Juergen van Gael working with us, prior to his starting a PhD at the University of Cambridge. Juergen looked at three topics: probabilisitic modelling with F#, some machine learning...