F# Weekly #42 – Visual F# Team is hiring

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# support improvements in Rider 2017.2
• JetBrains Rider 2017.2 is released
• Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.4 Released
• Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5 Preview
• Step-back while debugging with IntelliTrace
• Visual Studio 2017 for Mac 7.2.0
• Azure Durable Functions and Bindings Extensibility Preview Announcement
• Announcing UWP Support for .NET Standard 2.0
• .NET Framework October 2017 Security and Quality Rollup
• Creating Native macOS Apps with Xamarin.Forms

Videos & Slides

• F# Without Windows – Mitchell Tilbrook
• Growing Serverless code with Azure Functions and F# – Mathias Brandewinder
• Machine Learning with F#, Redux – Mathias Brandewinder
• Functional Design Patterns – Scott Wlaschin
• Domain Modeling Made Functional – Scott Wlaschin
• Functional Programming Patterns for Mere Mortals – Daniel Chambers
• Algebraic Data Types for C# – John Azariah
• FableConf 2017: Towards a new way of collaboration – Alfonso García-Caro
• How to write a function in F# (Part 2) – Casual F# with Kit Eason
• F# Delight – Tom Prior
• MancFUG #004 – Fable, putting the fun into functional JavaScript
• Event Driven Applications in F# – Mikhail Shilkov

Blogs

• Learning about the F# SAFE stack – Suave.io, Azure, Fable, Elmish – Scott Hanselman
• Suave Music Store Tutorial – 2nd version – Tomasz Heimowski
• The Solar System with ARKit and F# – Larry O’Brien
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 12) – EBrown
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 13) – EBrown
• Workflow Alpha – Michael Newton‏

F# vNext

• Breaking change in tuples after VS 15.4 update
• Lightweight solution load deprecated in VS 15.5
• New and hot FSharp.TypeProviders.SDK is baking right now!
  • F# type provider authors – If you’re wondering what an intro type provider looks like after the recent revamp of the TPSDK, see here It should all look very familiar
  • A generative type provider is very similar, just with isErased=false and a ProvidedAssembly
  • If you author using the updated TPSDK, your type provider will automatically be “cross-targeting” meaning it can be used when generating code for .NET Standard or .NET Core
  • If your type provider component is .NET Standard 2.0, then it will load nicely regardless of whether host tooling (e.g. F# compiler or Ionide/FsAutoComplete) is running in .NET Core or .NET Framework

Open source projects

• elmish-sample – Sample app using Elmish.Xamarin.Forms
• meandiff – Testing Intermediate Representations for Binary Analysis
• BioFSharp – BioFSharp aims to be a user-friendly library for Bioinformatics written in F# as the successor official of FSharpBio

New Releases

• Hedgehog 0.4.3
• Suave.Swagger 2.2.0

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

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