F# Weekly #11, 2017

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing F# 4.1 and the Visual F# Tools for Visual Studio 2017
• Announcing .NET Core Tools 1.0
• Announcing Visual Studio 2017 General Availability… and more
• Visual Studio 2017: Productivity, Performance, and Partners
• New Features in C# 7.0
• Announcing New ASP.NET Core and Web Development Features in Visual Studio 2017
• Optimize your productivity with .NET in Visual Studio 2017
• Assembly Load Debugger for Visual Studio 2017
• The week in .NET – Visual Studio 2017, .NET Core SDK, F# 4.1, On .NET with Phillip Carter, Happy Birthday from John Shewchuk, FNA, Pyre

Videos

• What’s New in F# 4.1
• Visual Studio 2017 launch event keynote
• Using Elixir and F# together – Bryan Hunter

Blogs

• Some details about Visual F# Tools in VS 2017 – Vasily Kirichenko
• F# and Purity – Eirik Tsarpalis
• Creating an Azure Function in F# from the ground up (Part 2) – Mathias Brandewinder
• Rediscovering Fire: Effective Learning? – Jeremy Clark
• Magic of F# Type Providers – Max Fedotov
• Exploring the new dotnet cli – Shayne Boyer
• Creating a fully functional F# microservice (NancyFx, SqlTypeProvider) – Michał Niegrzybowski
• Creating a fully functional F# microservice (Azure, FSharp.Configuration) – Michał Niegrzybowski
• Creating a fully functional F# microservice (Quartz.Net, Net.Mail) – Michał Niegrzybowski
• Contractive Functions on Streams in F# – Matthew Doig
• Detecting Faces with Dlib from F#. IFSharp Notebook – Boris Kogan
• Elixir vs F# – opinionated syntax comparison – Michał Łusiak

F# vNext

• If you want latest and greatest Visual F# in VS2017 now – Install latest VSIX from CI build.
• F# and .NET Core SDK 1.0.1
• Please help improve the F# documentation
• New F# lang suggestions:
  • List’s exists2 inconsistent with Seq’s exists2
  • Warn when an auto-property getter is confused with a default value

Open source projects

• FsYamlParser – Yaml1.2 parser in F#
• quotationcompiler – Quotation Compilation library that uses FSharp.Compiler.Service
• Fake.fsx – A FAKE extension module for working with FSX files.

New Releases

• Visual Studio 2017
• Visual Studio for Mac Preview4
• .NET Core SDK 1.0
• FSharp.Core 4.1.0.2
• FSharp.ViewModule 1.0.7
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 11.0.6
• FsXaml for WPF 3.1.6
• Fue 1.2.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #10