F# Weekly #18, 2020 – F# Conf & MS Build 2020

Welcome to F# Weekly,
A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Microsoft Build 2020 registration is not only open, it’s FREE, it’s LIVE, it’s VIRTUAL, and it is all FOR YOU
• Introducing C# Source Generators
• Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Release Candidate now available
• Work flow of diagnosing memory performance issues – Part 2
• Exception Helper – Rethrown Exceptions
• MsQuic is Open Source
• JetBrains .NET Days Online (13-14 May)
  • Formatting F# code, by Florian Verdonck
  • Learning F# by Designing Your Own Language, by Alexey Golub

Videos and Slides

• Visual Studio Toolbox – F# 5 with Phillip
• Fantomas – V4 Alpha – Florian Verdonck
• .NET Rocks: Versioning in a Pandemic with Jon Skeet
• ASP.NET Community Standup – April 21st 2020 – ML.NET + Blazor with Bri Achtman and Luis Quintanilla

Blogs

• How to define “proper” function in Fable – Mnie
• F# | Word Search Kata Summary – Paweł Zelmański
• How Socket Error Codes Depend on Runtime and Operating System – Andrey Akinshin
• INotifyPropertyChanged with C# 9.0 Source Generators – Jerome Laban

F# vNext

• Merged: Implement portable tailcall helpers
• dotnet/sdk: Add `dotnet add file` by Krzysztof Cieslak
• F# language suggestions:
  • Support Source Generators
  • Add if! (if-bang) keyword to computation expressions

GitHub projects

• MNie/BagnoDB – F# wrapper for MongoDB
• Horusiath/FSharp.Core.Extensions – A set of utilities, that you always wanted to have in F#.
• pimbrouwers/Falco – A functional micro-library for building brilliant ASP.NET Core applications using F#.
• pimbrouwers/Donald – A functional F# interface for ADO.NET.

New Releases

• DustyTables v2.0
• Ionide 4.10.0 (FCS 35.0, latest FSharpLint, and Fantomas 4.0 alpha)
• Saturn.Proxy 0.1.0
• MiniScaffold 0.24.2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #17 2020