The next F# New York City Meetup is now scheduled... Microsoft Offices, 6th floor, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, between 51st and 52nd Streets, New York, NY (map) Tomas Petricek on F# applications - From Domain Model to User Interface Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 6:30 PM between 51st and 52nd StreetsNew York, NY"> <div id="event-where-suggest" class="suggested-by">F# is a great language for developing business logic of an application, but it can be also used for elegantly expressing user interactions. In t[...]

In this post we are going back to the primitive. No it’s not about the same named song by Soulfly, (which incidentally does contains F# notes) but a return to thread synchronisation primitives and their asynchronous counterparts. We are going to be looking at an asynchronous version of the ManualResetEvent. This was recently covered by Stephen Toub on the pfx team blog. We will be taking a slightly different view on this as we will be using asynchronous workflows which will give us nice idiomatic usage[...]

In this post we are going back to the primitive. No it’s not about the same named song by Soulfly, (which incidenta

Last year, my wonderful peers in Microsoft Research developed the first versions of TouchDevelop, a touch-based programming environment. You can now find out all about TouchDevelop at the one big URL: www.touchdevelop.com and follow them on Twitter at @touchdevelop. Well done to the whole TouchDevelop team, and to Microsoft Connections for supporting this project. I'm sure many great things are coming for TouchDevelop from here!

Slightly off topic... The "debugging options" got turned on in my browser recently. I think this happened when I was debugging some web code in Visual Studio. From this, it's been interesting to see how regularly my web browsing experience is now interrupted by what must surely be outright bugs in Javascript code. Very often these are null object errors. I've always been more than sceptical about Javascript as a language for writing reliable, correct, reusable, efficient code (something F# is obviously goo[...]