Sharp Things
Use FsLex and FsYacc to make a parser in F#
Update: The template I posted yesterday was for PowerPack 1.9.9.9 which is not the most recent...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 06/15/2010
Creating an OData Web Service with F#
Jomo Fisher—I’ve spent a little time looking at the OData Web Service Protocol. There is quite a lot...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 05/28/2010
F# Object Oriented Programming
Jomo Fisher—F# has a functional heritage but it is actually very good at OO as well. Here’s an...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 05/26/2010
How to Enumerate all WMI Classes
Jomo Fisher—Quick sample today. I’m mainly posting this because it took me a while to...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 05/25/2010
F# Destroys Invading Aliens
Wow, check out Chris’s StarCraft bot in F#:...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 03/18/2010
F# Team is Hiring a Cross-Platform Developer
We’re hiring a developer to help advance our cross-platform presence. Please do send and application...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 03/15/2010
Neat Samples: MEF in F# Scripts
Jomo Fisher—I posted yesterday about using MEF in F# programs. In the comments Oldrich asked if it...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 03/10/2010
Neat Samples: Extend your F# program with MEF
Jomo Fisher—The Managed Extensibility Framework is an interesting new technology in .NET 4.0. It...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 03/09/2010
Neat Samples: F#, Freebase and DGML
Jomo Fisher – I recently posted about the freebase web service here. This sample reads biological...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 03/06/2010
Neat Sample: F# and Bing API
Jomo Fisher – I recently posted an sample of calling the Freebase web service with F#. Here’s...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 03/06/2010
Neat Sample: F# and Freebase
Jomo Fisher – The web service at Freebase.com lets you access all sorts of structured data from a...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 03/06/2010
F# February 2010 Release is out
Don just put the announcement up:...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 02/11/2010
F# Scripting, .NET 4.0 and Mixed-mode assemblies
Jomo Fisher—There is a nice F# and DirectX demo that has been floating around for a while now. A...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 11/17/2009
F# Performance Tweaking
Jomo Fisher—I’ve enjoyed reading the blog series on F# and game development here. Joh had posted an...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 09/16/2008
F# Scripts—Reference Nirvana
Jomo Fisher—Last time I wrote about getting started with F# scripts. They’re the fastest way to just...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 09/01/2008
F# Scripts--Zero to Execute in Ten Seconds
Jomo Fisher--F# is about conciseness. Consider the interview question that asks you to reverse a...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 08/30/2008
F# 1.9.6.0 Link Roundup
- Welcome to the F# CTP project system: project property pages [reddit] - Downloading stock prices...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 08/29/2008
Update on Fast Switching with LINQ
Jomo Fisher—A while back I wrote about using LINQ to get close-to-the-metal performance in a...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 08/29/2008
F# Community Technology Preview
Jomo Fisher—The F# team has been working furiously on the upcoming release of F# these last weeks....
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 08/24/2008
Programmatically Resolve Assembly Name to Full Path the Same Way MSBuild Does
Jomo Fisher—Every once in a while I find I need to turn and assembly name like “System” or...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 05/22/2008
Sample
Object Oriented Simple Class with Default Constructor Simple Class with Constructor Parameters Class...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 05/12/2008
Correct by Construction in F#
Correct by Construction in F# Jomo Fisher—a theme in the design of the F# language is that problems...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 04/22/2008
Strange Confluence: An Immutable Queue in F#
Jomo Fisher--Reading one of my favorite blogs this morning--Eric Lippert's Fabulous Adventures in...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 12/12/2007
Tight Code--A Puzzle in F#
Jomo Fisher--Luke Hoban wrote something in a blog entry that resonated with me: One of the most...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 11/17/2007
F# Team is Hiring
Do you want to help us ship F#? Check out these job postings: Developer:...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 10/30/2007
WideFinder--Naive F# Implementation
Jomo Fisher--Here's an interesting problem that some people are having fun with. Don Box posted a...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 10/22/2007
The Least a C# Programmer Needs to Know about F# Part I--Implicit Types
Jomo Fisher--A few weeks ago, a fellow C# programmer asked me what the biggest differences between...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 10/18/2007
Soma on F#
Soma announced some exciting news this morning. Developer Division--the people at Microsoft who make...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 10/17/2007
Adventures in F#--Sweet Test-First Kung Fu
Jomo Fisher--Up until now, I've been avoiding using F# with the VS IDE. I've been using notepad.exe...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 10/02/2007
Adventures in F#--Lazy Like a Fox
Jomo Fisher--This is the next part of the open-notebook series documenting my exploration of F#....
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 09/27/2007
Adventures in F#--Corecursion
Jomo Fisher--In a prior post I touched on recursion in F#. One of the comments was about mutually...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 09/24/2007
Adventures in F#--Discriminated Unions
Jomo Fisher-- Easily my favorite feature of F# so far is the combination of discriminated union and...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 09/17/2007
Adventures in F#--Poking Tuples with a Stick
Jomo Fisher--In a comment on my bloglet about type inference in F# John Harrop suggested I try: let...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 09/16/2007
Adventures in F#--Function Type Inference
Consider this F#: let Reverse a b = b a This means: given a and b (whatever they may be) call b as a...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 09/14/2007
Adventures in F#--Probing Type Inference
Jomo Fisher--I was curious about type inference in F# and I wondered what would happen if there was...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 09/12/2007
Adventures in F#--The Lay of the Land
Jomo Fisher--I'm taking some time now to better understand F#. Right now, I understand the concept...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 09/12/2007
Persistence Ignorance in LINQ to SQL
Mathew Charles is a member of the LINQ to SQL development team. He's posted a great article on POCO...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 08/28/2007
Probing a Hidden .NET Runtime Performance Enhancement
Jomo Fisher--Matt Warren once told me that the runtime had a performance optimization involving...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 08/13/2007
LINQ to SQL Trick: Get all Table Names
It's often useful to be able to list all the tables or columns in your DataContext. One example is...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 07/30/2007
The Least You Need to Know about C# 3.0
Jomo Fisher—A lot of people (myself included) have written about LINQ in the next version of C#....
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 07/23/2007
LINQ to SQL Beta2 Performance Numbers and the Dynamic Compilation Pattern
Jomo Fisher--Rico Mariani has been posting about LINQ to SQL perfomance and has finally posted the...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 07/06/2007
Dealing with Linq’s Immutable Expression Trees
Jomo Fisher --I recently got a question via my blog that dovetailed nicely with something I’ve been...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 05/23/2007
Leaky FunctionsBarrel of Bugs
Jomo Fisher--Pop quiz. Consider this function call in C#: a = MyFunction(b); What information is...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 05/16/2007
Visitor Revisitted: LINQ, Function Composablity and Chain of Responsibility
Jomo Fisher—Last time, I wrote about constructing an inline visitor using new C# language features....
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 05/07/2007
Inline Visitor Construction using LINQ
Jomo Fisher—My current job is in the C# team working on LINQ to SQL. Because of nature of...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 05/04/2007
Fast Switching with LINQ
Jomo Fisher—I’ve run into a performance problem several times in my career that I’ve never found a...
Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 03/28/2007
ILMerge in MSBuild
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Author: Jomo Fisher MSFT Date: 03/05/2006