F# Weekly #44, 2025 – .NET Conf – Nov 11-13

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• .NET Conf 2025 – November 11 ‐ 13 (.NET 10 & VS 2026)
• Join us at .NET Conf: Dive into the future of development with Visual Studio 2026 – Visual Studio Blog
• Introducing Custom Agents for .NET Developers: C# Expert & WinForms Expert – .NET Blog
• 💫 Welcome to Aspire: Your stack, streamlined | Aspire Blog
• Visual Studio 2022 17.14 October Update
• Announcing Azure MCP Server 1.0.0 Stable Release – A New Era for Agentic Workflows – Azure SDK Blog

Videos

• Demystifying the Enigma Machine – a Functional Journey – Isaac Abraham – NDC Copenhagen 2025 – YouTube
• .NET Liverpool Lightning Talks 2025 – YouTube
• On .NET Live | Building agentic systems with local-first SLMs

Blogs

• Announcing Elmish Land 1.1 Preview | Elmish Land
• An F# MCP Client Example – Kevin Logan
• Scala vs F# – Alexandru Nedelcu
• Coding games with a story – Michael Newton
• Achieving Safety In a Universally Contested Future – Houston Haynes

Highlighted projects

• CSBiology/DynamicObj: F# library supporting Dynamic Objects including inheritance in functional style
• nfdi4plants/Swate: Excel Add-In for annotation of experimental data and computational workflows.
• informedica/GenPRES: Enable Safe and Efficient medication prescription, preparation and administration

New Releases

• Farmer 1.9.25
• Oxpecker 1.5.0
• FsUnit.Light 1.1.0
• fake-cli 6.1.4
• FSharpPlus 1.8.0
• Akka.FSharp 1.5.55
• FSharp.Idioms 1.5.3
• Fsharp.wpf 0.3.0
• DynamicObj 7.1.0
• Swate.Components 1.0.2
• ARCtrl 3.0.0-beta.11
• Feliz 3.0.0-rc.3

Just published a new version of FsUnit.Light package with new functions for testing exceptions in your taskswww.nuget.org/packages?q=F…#fsharp

— Vladimir Shchur (@lanayx.bsky.social) 2025-11-02T00:26:06.571Z

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

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