F# Weekly #33, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Visual F# PowerTools v1.4.0 is out with graying out unused opens, full support for VS 14 and much more besides.
• Vote for “Support for collectible assemblies” if you want to see more improvements for F# Type Providers and REPL.
• FSharp.Compiler.Service v0.0.59 is out.
• FSharp.Formatting & FSharp.Formatting.CommandTool v2.4.21 are out.
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient v1.3.2 is out.
• F# Azure Storage Type Provider v1.1.0 is out.
• CloudSharper v0.9.16 is out, allowing you to develop custom editors.
• Akka.FSharp v0.6.3 is out.
• Adam Granicz shared “PhoneJS for WebSharper sample“.
• Interested in the best options for serialization in F#? Checkout the FsPickler performance page.
• Sindunata Sudarmaji created chocolatey package for Visual F# Tools.
• Taha Hachana shower “jQuery Image Carousel“.

Core and Lang News

• Help Visual F# Team out by trying the release candidate for Visual F# Tools 3.1.2.
• Patrick Mcdonald implemented a F# 4.0 feature (implement skipwhile) – review his PR.
• ‘Cannot add reference to F# PCL project‘ F#issue is fixed.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• PluralSight course “F# Functional Data Structures” with Kit Eason.
• A new Course “F# via Machine Learning” with Mathias Brandewinder was announced.
• “FSharp.Data Poster” by Tomas Petricek.

Blogs

• Juan M Gómez blogged “Hello CocosSharp from FSharp!“.
• Phil Trelford posted “Running TAP“.
• Ryan Riley shared:
  • “WebSharper UI Improvements“.
  • “F# Web Stack Group“.
• Richard Dalton presented:
  • Active Patterns: Single Partial (|A|_|)
  • Active Patterns: Single Partial With Params (|A|_|) x
  • Active Patterns: Multi-Case (|A|B|)
• Ronnie Holm posted “Querying Azure Active Directory through Azure Graph API with F#“.
• Andrew Cherry wrote:
  • “aether — total & partial lenses for f#“.
  • “aether — brief guide“.
• Marius Schulz posted “Learn the Basics of F# with Project Euler“.
• Ashley Towns blogged “Running .Net on heroku“.
• Jamie Dixon wrote “Controlling Servos Using Netdunio and Phidgets“.
• masuda posted:
  • “PCL対応のTypeProviderを作…れるのかな？の巻“.
  • “Xamarin.iOS/Android に対応している Profile78 とは何か？“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #32