F# Weekly #14, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New C# and VB features in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 & VS 15
• .NET at Build 2016 – Open, Cross-platform and FREE
• .NET Fringe conference is coming back: 10 – 12 July, Portland OR
• New book: Mastering .NET Machine Learning from Jamie Dixon
• F# Gazette is out now!
• Mono has been relicensed under the MIT license
• The week in .NET – 3/29/2016
• Microsoft Bot Framework was announced (check out F#+Suave demo)
• Visual Studio “15” Preview Now Available
• Visual Studio “15” Preview What’s New
• Azure Functions preview is available: New Azure service for serverless compute (like AWS Lambda)
• Introducing Azure Functions
• New Azure Functions has support for F# jobs
• Mobile App Development made easy with Visual Studio and Xamarin
• Xamarin for Everyone
• Free ebook: Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms

Videos/Presentations

• Getting Started with F# on .NET Core – David Stephens
• The Future of .NET Languages – Dustin Campbell, Anthony D. Green, Seth Juarez, David Stephens, Mads Torgersen
• .NET Overview – Scott Hanselman, Scott Hunter
• The Future of C# – Dustin Campbell, Mads Torgersen
• Beyond Lists – Phillip Trelford
• Functional Architecture – Mark Seemann
• Microservices Chaos Testing at Jet – Rachel Reese
• A Board Game Night with Geeks – Felienne Hermans
• Spice up your website with Machine Learning! – Evelina Gabasova
• Delegate: Showcase 2/3 years old F# Codebase – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Polyglot data science the force awakens with F#, R and D3.js – Evelina Gabasova & Tomas Petricek
• F# in the real world (CodeMotion Dubai) –  Yan Cui
• Patterns and practices for real-world event-driven microservices – Rachel Reese
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 34 – Ernest Pazera
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 35 – Ernest Pazera
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Quick Shot #1: Guess My Number – Ernest Pazera

Blogs

• Silverlight Resurrection – Phillip Trelford
• Making program behaviour explicit – Pierre Irrmann
• A Premier League team will win the Champions League this year – Vicenç García-Altés
• Introducing Paket’s caching feature – or how I fixed our broken builds – Steffen Forkmann
• F# has a Great Community (and a Ton of Paket Fans) – Michael Szul
• Expanding Existing Computational Expressions – Michael Newton
• Chiron: Easier with Computation Expressions – Marcus Griep
• Understanding map – David Raab
• Image processing with comonads and phantom types – Hodza Nassredin
• Singleton Implementation: F# – Ted Neward
• Type Satety for Numerics in F# Using Units of Measure – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Getting started with writing F# code – Amit Choudhary
• Exercises in Programming Style in F# – Actors – Yan Cui
• F# – Functors with Record Types (now with map) – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Var, View, Lens, ListModel in UI.Next – Kimserey Lam
• Printing and formatting outputs in F# – Amit Choudhary
• Function composition and pipeline operator – Vicenç García-Altés

F# vNext

• New working version 1.0.0-beta-002071 for .Net CLI and F#.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Add a “with” syntax for patterns

Open source projects

• docopt.fs – F# port of docopt
• hermes – a simple and opinionated release notes generator using Octokit.NET and F#
• generator-fsharp-kata – Yeoman generator for FSharp kata
• fsyaml – Typed Yaml Library for F#
• FSharp.Control.FusionTasks – F# Async computation <–> .NET Task easy seamless interoperability library.
• funcy – This is the insignificant one of the numberless functional libraries for C#/VB
• xamarin-monodevelop-fsharp-addin – F# Editing Support In MonoDevelop and Xamarin Studio
• Camel.Net – F# DSL for Enterprise Integration Patterns

New Releases

• SwaggerProvider 0.3.6
• Logibit.Hawk v3.0.3
• FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq 2.0.8
• FSharp.Compiler.CodeDom.dll 1.0.0.1
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 2.0.0.8
• FSharp.Compiler.Service.ProjectCracker 2.0.0.8
• FSharp.Core.Extra 0.1.58
• Paket 2.57.1
• RouteProvider 0.0.1-beta5
• FSharp.QueryProvider 1.0.6
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.7.38

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #13