We are happy to announce CloudSharper Local alpha 0.9.8, encapsulating the latest enhancements to the F# compiler service and delivering several bug fixes to CloudSharper's msbuild support.

We are happy to announce the latest release of CloudSharper, version 0.9.7, bringing a new type checking and code assistance engine for F# projects. This last week we have been working hard on moving CloudSharper to FCS (FSharp.Compiler.Service), and with this current release much of the migration work is completed. As a result, the type checker in F# projects is considerably faster, and code assistance features are available in more locations that in previous CloudSharper releases.

F# 3.x Query Expressions are a nice piece of syntactic sugar, but they are notably difficult to compose. This article discusses the auto-quoting mechanism of query expressions and how it can be leveraged to implement not-too-clunky composition.

In addition to several bug fixes, the main highlight of this new update is the experimental support for MSBuild as an alternative to IntelliFactory.Build.