I am very, very happy to cross post this wonderful news from the Visual F# Team blog!  Free Express F# Tools!!!!!!!!! (for Visual Studio 2012 Express for Web) Congratulations to the Visual F# team who have done so much hard work (of all kinds - dev, test and PM) to get this release together. The F# team is excited to announce that F# Tools for Visual Studio 2012 Express for Web is now available! Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web (available here) is a free development environment that programmers can use t[...]

A sneak preview has leaked out on Twitter of this.

Cross-posted from the F# team blog... The "Cloud Numerics" Lab from SQL Azure Labs has been refreshed.  You can go and sign-up to try out the lab. To quote the Cloud Numerics Team: Today we are announcing a refresh of the Microsoft Codename "Cloud Numerics" Lab. We want to thank everyone who participated in the initial Lab, we listened to your feedback to make improvements and add exciting new features. Your continued feedback and participation is what makes this lab a success! Thank you. Here’s what is ne[...]

Over on the F# team blog, there's a new article about Getting Started with Implementing Web APIs using F# and ASP.NET F# 3.0 is included as part of Visual Studio 2012 and comes with a gallery of community contributed online templates for F#. Time to explore! One online template is "F#/C# MVC 4" using ASP.NET Web API. Let's use this template to create a HTTP REST Web API which responds to requests as follows... .... Full post

I'm very pleased to announce an exciting new workshop being added to the POPL program at POPL 2013.  This workshop is aimed at anyone who loves the application of functional programming (and indeed other programming paradigms as well) to data-rich domains. Please consider submitting to the workshop. Whatever your flavour of data, whatever your flavour of functional programming. We want this to be a great event that opens up opportunities at the intersection of data and programming!  Submission Date: Oct 8[...]