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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.

Previous F# Weekly edition –#41

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Free F# ebooks
• Check out Fulma project
• Roslyn Primer – Part I: Anatomy of a Compiler
• Riders support F# Scripts
• Save the date for Connect(); 2017

Videos & Slides

• How to write a function in F# (Part 1) – Casual F# with Kit Eason
• F# Game of Codes – Book Return – Michael Gilliland
• F# Game of Codes – Islands – Michael Gilliland
• F# GoC – Islands aside – app2 from map and app – Michael Gilliland
• Memoizing F# Functions (So They Remember) – Michael Gilliland

Blogs

• Open source in the F# community, part 1 – Henrik Feldt
• F# Agent Pipeline Processing in Concurrent Applications – Stijn Moreels
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 11) -Elliott V. Brown
• F# Domain Model Validation with Active Patterns – Stijn Moreels
• Dirt simple SQL queries in F# – Kasey Speakman
• From A to F#: Getting started with F# and Linux  – Lucas
• The Solar System with ARKit and F# – Larry O’Brien
• Functional JSON – Oliver coding
• Building a Trading App (Xamarin.Forms & F#) – Scott Nimrod

F# vNext

• ionide-atom-fsharp – Looking for new maintainers / Atom plugin future
• New ideas:
  • Support “Raise” keywords in computation expressions

Open source projects

• owin-kestrel – Run OWIN on Kestrel with F#
• flexsearch – FlexSearch Server
• litedb.fsharp – F# Support for LiteDB on .NET Core
• exercism/fsharp – Exercism exercises in F#

New Releases

• MessagePack.FSharpExtensions 1.3.0
• Ionide 3.4.0 with macOS TouchBar icons
• TaskBuilder. fs 1.0.0
• VSCode 1.17
• Latest Paket comes with much nicer VS + cmd line integration for dotnet sdk projects
• FAKE 5 is now in beta phase and has initial support for netstandard20 with beta004

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#40

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Build a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0
• .NET Framework 4.7.1 Runtime and Compiler Features
• If you use Suave or Giraffe please share your thoughts here
• C# .NET Core programs versus Java
• F# + CNTK Logistics
• Microsoft makes play for next wave of computing with quantum computing toolkit
• WebSharper Sitelet running on ASP.NET  Core
• Hot Module Replacement in Elmish.ReactNative

Videos & Slides

• Query Data using F# Collection Functions – Casual F#
• MancFUG #003 – Introduction to Property Testing using FsCheck
• Jason Dryhurst-Smith talking about Functional (F#) Programming
• Language Challenges of Targeting Multiple Runtimes – Tomas Petricek
• Extending F# through Computation Expressions – Ryan Riley
• Being Productive with the F# Stack of Happiness. Featuring Suave, Fable, FAKES, and Paket – Jeremy Abbott
• The Agony and the Ecstasy of F# Scripting – Ryan Riley

Blogs

• The F# Community – Ody Mbegbu
• Handling results from complex operations – Dave Shaw
• Everything you need to know about F# classes in 23 view models – Sam Williams
• When to Unit Test in F# – Isaac Abraham
• Seven ineffective coding habits many F# programmers don’t have -Yan Cui
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 10) – Elliott V. Brown
• F# Agent Pipeline Processing in Concurrent Applications – Stijn Moreels
• F# Coin Change Kata with Property-Based Testing – Stijn Moreels
• Giraffe brings F# functional programming to ASP.Net Core – Paul Krill
• Functional paradigm, pt. 2: F# in 15 minutes – Ismael Carlos Velten

F# vNext

• New ideas:
  • Struct representation for active patterns
  • Make Destructing Assignments in Match Statements First Class
  • Allow for Named and Default Generic Type Parameters
  • Running compiler on project files containing FSX scripts
  • Allow Literals in (Generic) Type Definitions

Open source projects

• fable-import – Fable bindings for JavaScript libraries
• Nikeza – Platform for associating content to their providers
• AsciiArtKataFsharp – Ascii Art kata Fsharp

New Releases

• F# Data 2.4.1
• FsCheck 2.10.3
• Hedgehog 0.4 is out with Unquote support
• SQLProvider 1.1.12-alpha5 type provider supports #dotnet core2 / Standard 2.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#39

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• ANNOUNCING THE SAFE STACK
• Two month retrospectives – What your board did so far
• CNTK 2.2 released with C# and R bindings and multigpu Keras
• .NET Framework 4.7.1 Accessibility and WPF Improvements
• .NET Core September 2017 Update — macOS High Sierra Support
• Enable WebSharper for .NET Core
• Change WebSharper output to TypeScript

Videos & Slides

• Introduction to F# Discriminated Unions – Casual F#
• Get started with F# and .NET Core – Phillip Carter
• Full Stack F# with Fable – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Illustrating How F# Thinks about Types – Michael Gilliland
• Watch .NET Conf 2017!

Blogs

• A Functional Web with ASP.NET Core and F#’s Giraffe – Scott Hanselman
• Functional-first Web Applications in F# by Krzysztof Cieślak
• Cloud Programming in F# by Isaac Abraham
• Writing rich web apps with Fable by Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• UI programming with Elmish in F# by Steffen Forkmann.
• Functional Programming in the Wild – Michael Newton
• Impromptu Blog Post: Loading F# Into PowerShell – Elliott V. Brown
• Class-less Coding – Minimalist C# and Why F# and Function Programming Has Some Advantages – Marc Clifton
• The F# Community – Ody Mbegbu
• How to MVVM that you know is compiler correct – Sam
• F# Game Project – Oliver Coding

F# vNext

• [WIP, F# 4.2 ] First attempt towards C# like string interpolation
• PR from JetBrains to VisualF#: [WIP] Parsing improvements: no reactor, add parsing options, error severity options (Thank you Eugene Auduchinok)
• Visual F# Nightlies down for now
• New ideas:
  • Add F# code generator to the compiler
  • Typed Union Cases

Open source projects

• fsharp-tutorials – fsharp tutorials: *nix, docker, vim, mono, paket, oh my!
• fableconf2017 – Material for FableConf 2017
• SpiseMisu.IntroCourseFSharp – Intro Course in F#
• SAFE-BookStore – Working sample of a Suave + Azure + Fable + Elmish aka SAFE-Stack project with hot reloading
• SAFE-Nightwatch – Demo of SAFE-Stack applied to React Native for cross platform native mobile apps
• 20170921-tennis-kata – Mob programming session on September 21st 2017: Tennis kata in FSharp
• Fulma – Binding for Elmish using Bulma CSS framework
• FSharp.Text.Docker – Build dockerfiles and run docker commands from F#

New Releases

• Stanford.NLP.NET 3.8.0
• Hawk v5.0.1
• Akkling 0.7.0
• ILSpy 3 preview

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#38

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• FHash is announced
• Messenger.com Now 50% Converted to Reason
• Reason site lists Fable as an alternative
• Mono on WebAssembly status update
• NuGet Package signing
• .NET Framework 4.7.1 ASP.NET and Configuration features

Videos & Slides

• Check out Progressive .NET 2017 talks!
• Introduction to F# Pattern Matching – Casual F#(Kit Eason)
• Type Driven Development (TDD) and Idiomatic Data Structures – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Building Solid Systems in F# – Michael Newton
• Lightning Talk: Continuous Property-Based Testing in F# (using FsCheck and Fake) – Christina Nicolau
• Let’s Write a Lambda Calculus in F# – Michael Gilliland
• Making It Pure with Option – Lambda Calculus in F# Part 2 – Michael Gilliland
• Converting Option to a Custom Result Type – Lambda Calculus in F# Part 3 – Michael Gilliland

Blogs

• The design side of programming language design – Tomas Petricek
• Fable 1.2 Announced along with First FableConf – InfoQ
• 12 practical ways for executing F# scripts – Coding with Sam
• Which is better for teaching? C# or F# – Jakob Christensen
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 8) – Elliott V. Brown
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 9) – Elliott V. Brown
• Using F# Type Providers for Data Science – Rachel Reese

F# vNext

• Paket CLI mentioned on NuGet.org
• Language suggestions:
  • Sugar: Some 10 |> function (Some x) -> x | …

Open source projects

• fsirefgen – FsiRefGen is a simple tool to generate HTML docs from given .fsi files
• fable.template.library – F# Template for create and publishing Fable Libraries
• s2client-dotnet – Starcraft 2 Client API for .NET
• fsharpplus – Extensions for F#
• devspace-data – Azure Functions for database backup and copying to staging
• monacs – Collection of basic monads and functional extensions for C#
• fable-vscode-demo – Example of using F# Fable to create VSCode extension

New Releases

• Forge 2.0. Main huge change – we now generate `dotnet` 2.0 projects.
• Ionide 3.0! Adding `sln` support, Forge 2.0, Go-to for #load, LineLenses and more!
• FsPickler 3.4.0 with support for F# 4.1 struct types
• TensorFlowSharp 1.3.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#37

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Is F# dead? (We do not think so 😉
• After so many years, still no .NET Native nor proper UWP support for F#
• NuGet.Server is released with SemVer 2.0.0 support
• What’s Nu in NuGet with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3?
• Announcing WebSharper 4 Release Candidate
• New book: Learning Basics of Functional Programming by Onur Gumus
• New course: F# Programming Language & Xamarin Android with F#
• Getting Started with Windows Containers
• Issues with .NET Standard 2.0 with .NET Framework & NuGet
• Rider 2017.2 EAP brings .NET Core 2.0, MSTest, and more

Videos & Slides

• .NET Rocks: F# for C# Developers with Scott Wlaschin
• Let’s Write “let” in F# – Michael Gilliland
• Blockchain (using NBitcoin and FSharp) – Tuomas Hietanen
• Machine learning (using Accord.NET and FSharp)– Tuomas Hietanen
• Elm Europe 2017 – Richard Feldman – Scaling Elm Apps

Blogs

• There and Back Again – Andrea Vallotti‏
• .NET Standard for mobile is here! – Sam Williams
• There is no such thing as a free Free monad –  Marcin Malinowski
• Exploring F# for Domain Driven Design – Erik Sacré
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 7) – Elliott V. Brown
• HackerRank solutions by Alex Netkachov:
  • HR F#: Area Under Curves and Volume of Revolving a Curve

F# vNext

• WIP: Visual F# Formatting Service
• Portable pdb debugger for F# is a nice improvement over the mono debugger.

Open source projects

• linux-intro-course – A gentle introduction to programming networked services on linux
• scotch – Scotch is a .NET library for recording and replaying HTTP interactions in your test suite, it is inspired by the VCR ruby gem.
• nfa-to-dfa – A Non-Deterministic to Deterministic Finite Automaton converter implemented in F#
• fable-elmish/debugger – Time-traveling debugger and import export for Elmish apps
• RazorPagesFSharp – The standard Razor Pages template published by Microsoft but converted from a C# project to an F# project.

New Releases

• Fable 1.2
• Gjallarhorn 1.0.1
• Gjallarhorn. Bindable.Wpf 1.0.0-beta4
• Fable.Chessie 0.1.1
• Suave v2.3.0-beta

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#36

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Voting for 2017 Community for F# Heroes is open!
• Ask about WebSharper on the new forums site
• Premake officially support #fsharp now too!
• Computer Vision with F# – Advanced Lane Finding
• New WinDbg available in preview!
• Introducing .NET IL Linker
• The week in .NET – Let’s Encrypt Web App Renewer, Seattle CodeCamp 2017

https://twitter.com/c4fsharp/status/903817699339456516

Videos & Papers

• Memoizing F# Functions (So They Remember) – Michael Gilliland
• Different Ways to Define F# Functions – Michael Gilliland
• Illustrating How F# Thinks about Types – Michael Gilliland

Blogs

• F# FastTrack: Lessons from six years of teaching F# – Tomas Petricek
• Using the Azure Type Provider with Azure Functions – Anthony Brown
• The Builder functor – Mark Seemann
• Introduction to Azure IoT with Fsharp – William R. Berry III
• System.Console Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things – Michael Newton
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 4) – Elliott V. Brown
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 5) – Elliott V. Brown
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 6) – Elliott V. Brown
• Why it’s important to be respectful and humble – Elliott V. Brown
• HackerRank solutions by Alex Netkachov:
  • HR F#: List Replication
  • HR F#: Filter Positions in a List
  • HR F#: Array Of N Elements
  • HR F#: Reverse a List
  • HR F#: List Length
  • HR F#: Evaluating eˣ

F# vNext

• July/August Update for F# and Visual F# Tools
• Visual F#: Adopt the MIT License
• Ionide: “LineLens”
• Language suggestions:
  • lambda sugar: books |> Array.map(fun’.Name)
  • Diagnostics: warn if a with-operation updates all values

Open source projects

• tickspec – A lightweight Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) framework
• sharpvg – Create vector graphics in F#
• LicenseToCIL – Semi-safely generate CIL in F#
• takofukku – An Azure Function enabling Webhook deploys in Octopus from Github hooks
• dotnet-mono – dotnet utility to run .net full apps using mono on OSX/Linux
• minesweeper-fs – Minesweeper game implemented in F#
• Akka.DI.Grace – Akka.NET integration plugin for Grace dependency injection library
• asciiphoto – Convert images to Ascii Art with F# Fable.io
• FsCPS – F# bindings and type providers for the Control Plane Services API
• AudioVolumeManager – Command line utility for saving and restoring audio volume profiles

New Releases

• FSharp. TypeProviders. StarterPack 2.1.0
• Giraffe 0.1.0-beta-100 (.NET Standard 2.0)
• WebSharper 4 beta-10 released
• Paket 5.92.3

https://twitter.com/k_cieslak/status/901570457421459458

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#35

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• .NET Core Support in Visual Studio for Mac 7.1
• UWP & .NET Standard 2.0: A preview is now available!
• Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms: Architecture and Patterns guidance
• dotMemory 2017.2 enables importing raw Windows memory dumps and analyzing them using its full range of features.
• The week in .NET – Project File Tools, Maira Wenzel, Mixed Reality in Miami, and links!

Videos & Papers

• How to Make an Open-source Contribution in Github – Michael Gilliland
• Episode 263 | Ody Mbegbu – Shipping Value

Blogs

• Migrating Complex NuGet solutions to Paket – Isaac Abraham
• How _not_ to upgrade to ASP.NET Core 2.0 just yet (with Paket) – Marcin Malinowski
• On the Significance of Recursion – Eirik Tsarpalis‏
• My reasons to love F# – Lena Hall
• Hashcash Algorithm in F# – marnee
• Functional Programming (F#) for C# Developers – Damir Arh
• There is no such thing as a free Free monad – Marcin Malinowski
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 1) – Elliott V. Brown
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 2) – Elliott V. Brown
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 3) – Elliott V. Brown
• HackerRank solutions by Alex Netkachov:
  • Solving HackerRank’s Functional Challenges in F#: Solve Me First FP
  • HR F#: Hello World – Alex Netkachov
  • Solving a Problem: Segment Intersection
  • HR F#: Hello World N Times

F# vNext

• Merged: Go to C# symbols
• Looks like Paket will be listed on NuGet.org

https://twitter.com/JonCanning/status/900607849595899904

Open source projects

• taskbuilder.fs – F# computation expression builder for System.Threading.Tasks

New Releases

• Expecto 5.0.1
• Gjallarhorn 0.11.0
• SwaggerProvider 0.8.1
• FSharp. Compiler. Service 14.0.2
• Gluon 4.0.2
• Paket 5.90.1
• Rider 2017.1.1 is available: debugging async code, Xamarin and Unity support fixes, 50+ issues fixed in total

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#34