Sunday, June 14, 2009 8:09 PM
by
RickM
Discoveries This Week 06/14/2009
Another great week in F#. Most importantly, it is now known that the language will continue to be available for free, despite productization. Also, the F# PowerPack is now available for VS2010 beta and the MSDN documentation is up.
Free options will continue to exist, most likely through the VS shell. For example, we'll be continuing with our VS2008 plugin until the plans around a VS2010 shell finalize.
It is very good to hear that the productization of F# won’t stop it from continuing to be available for free.
Now that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is out, it is finally a good time to take a look at one of the (in my opinion) most interesting new features in the new release - the F# language.
In this Webcast, Tomas shows how simple it is to add asynchronous operation to an application via the F# asynchronous workflow feature.
F# PowerPack is now available for download for the latest Beta development milestones of the next generation of Microsoft's development platform and tools.
I know a great many people (not to mention myself) were disappointed that the VS 2010 beta did not ship with this. I for one am in love with it’s Math and Charting features.
The Visual F# product provides support for developing F# applications or extending other .NET applications with F# code.
We now have official documentation in the MSDN style we all know and love.
^ (op_Concatenate): Compiler error in F#. Apparently only strings can be concatenated.
> (op_GreaterThan): Runtime Error – Failure during generic comparison: the type Program+OppTest4 does not implement the System.IComparable interface.
It’s not what you say but how you say it, and while I feel the reaction of the author was way over the top, his concerns seem justified. I’m hoping it’s just a bug and, now being identified, will be resolved.