F# Weekly #50, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Paket.VisualStudio was presented.
• Akka.NET v0.7.1 is now live on NuGet with brand new F# API.
• Fixed “design time memory leak” in FSharp.Configuration. Check your Type Provides for the same bug: update to the latest version of ProvidedTypes.fs from FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack and do not override Dispose method.
• Emacs pretty-mode now has F# support.
• Tsunami IDE no longer requires you to log in or have an internet access to use.
• F# plugin connects BeakerNoteBook and the whole .net world.
• Mono Docker image available in the “official” repo Includes F# 3.1.
• DependencyGraph – A small F# application to visualize .net assembly dependencies.
• FSharp.Core.NextVersion.Shim – provides a shim for library functions that will get available in the next FSharp.Core library.
• Hans-Martin Will work on SpaceCurve type provider.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Xamarin Evolve 2014: Mobile App Development in F# – Rachael Reese, Firefly Logic

This week from F# Advent Calendar in English

• Composing Christmas with F# – Tomas Petricek
• Using IBM’s Watson With F# – Jamie Dixon
• Terror from the Deep – Dave Thomas
• Becoming an F# contributor – Mårten Rånge
• FSharp and games in celebration times – Andrea Magnorsky
• F# for social media analytics – John Tarbox
• Akka.NET remote deployment with F# – Bartosz Sypytkowski

This week from F# Advent Calendar in Japanese

• FSharperならこう書く(A Poker Game Program) – ねの
• クラスのコンストラクタ呼び出し時にプロパティも同時に初期化する – bleis-tift
• コンピュテーション式の変形後を覗き見る – ざっきー
• Visual F# Power Tools の紹介 – gab_km
• F#で2ch専用ブラウザをつくろう – ichiohta
• 世界をちょっと支配してみた – omanuke
• F# から Fortarn の関数を呼び出そう – moonmile

Blogs

• Choosing properties for property-based testing – Scott Wlaschin
• Extending a 3rd-party API with F# units of measure – Lincoln Atkinson
• News from WebSharper 3.0: NuGet, Visual Studio, Mono, upcoming features and API changes – Loïc Denuzière
• Finite State Machine Compiler – Phillip Trelford
• Web Application Development in Fsharp Using ASP.NET MVC – TamizhVendan S
• How to properly disable FSharpLint while working with NCrunch – Akim Boyko
• Properties for Easter… – bjartwolf

F# vNext News

• F# developers Visual F# Team need your help. Please dogfood F# 4.0 find and raise issues here.
• Please build your large C# and F# projects with VS 2015. Visual F# Team need to know of all comparability issues for these languages.
• Recently accepted PRs:
  • alignment with github.com/fsharp
  • fix #29 – internal module reference
  • add tryunbox, isnull and option fns
  • use strongly-typed weakreference
  • provide asyncdownloadfile and -data
  • implement seq.foldback2
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Length constraints on lists and arrays
  • Add curry and uncurry functions

New releases

• Paket 0.18.9.
• FSharp.Core 3.1.2.1
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 0.0.81
• Akka.FSharp 0.7.1
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.5.3
• EventStore.Client.FSharp 3.0.7
• FSharp.Charting and FSharp.Charting.Gtk 0.90.9
• Logary 2.0.3
• FSharp.Actor-logary 2.0.2
• Nu Game Engine v0.995
• FSharp.Configuration 0.4.7
• Stacks.FSharp 1.2.0
• FAKE 3.11.4

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #49