A couple of weeks ago we started the Paket project which is released on GitHub. Unfortunately GitHub doesn’t provide any download stats in the UI. A quick look at the REST API docs shows that we can retrieve the numbers via JSON. So let’s open Visual Studio reference FSharp.Data and FSharp.Charting and hack a bit with the JSON […]

Recently Microsoft released all their major programming languages as open source and even started to accept pull requests. I didn’t think this would ever be possible at Microsoft, but they opened up and people like me started to contribute: F#  –  63 pull requests with 21 applied and 26 open TypeScript - 49 pull requests with 7 applied and 4 […]

With the FAKE 2.18.1 we now have 80 contributors. A big thanks to all of you. Here are the most important changes since my last blog post about FAKE 2.14. What’s new? New (backwards compatible) CLI #455 - see new docs Visual Basic support to AssemblyFileInfo task #471 Small fixes for OctoTools support #468, #469, #470 Support for Project RoundhousE #456 Support for NuGet […]

Two months ago I started to use the RELEASE_NOTES.md files feature in FAKE to describe FAKE’s own changelog. It’s working pretty well with FSharp.Formatting and the whole process got much easier for me. One of the intersting side effects is that I didn’t use the develop branch any more. Pre-release packages can be pushed directly […]

We are still porting one of our products from Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 (Classic Client) to NAV 2013 R2 and found another strange issue: On Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 Classic client (Build 6.00.33494): FORMAT(13.5671,0,'<Integer,4>'); ==> 0013,5671 FORMAT(13.5671,0,'<Precision,0:0><Integer,4>'); ==> 0014 But on Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 (Build 7.10.36281) we get: FORMAT(13.5671,0,'<Integer,4>'); ==> 0013,5671 FORMAT(13.5671,0,'<Precision,0:0><Integer,4>'); ==> 0013 […]