Title: Programming F# Subtitle: A comprehensive guide for writing simple code to solve complex problems Publisher: O'Reilly® Author: Chris Smith Date of appearance: October, 2009 (416 Pages) The new version of Visual Studio is officially released today, April 12, 2010. It contains a new language called „F#“, designed by Don Syme of Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK. F# is a programming language that has capacities comparable to C#, but also offers the possibilities of a functional language. [...]

LII is an entity that knows nothing to start with, but learns about how to form sentences as you talk to it.  This can lead to highly amusing covnersations, that become eerily more human-like the more you teach it.  Have a play! LII will ignore some punctuation for the time being. Try to make sure you spell stuff correctly otherwise it will think you are using new words. (disclaimer: I knocked the Silveright console together in 10 minutes, and no it is not pretty, I will tart it up a bit later!)   (type i[...]

I stumbled across a collection type the other day that was implemented with .NET 2.0. This, like many other things in 2.0 slipped past me completely until now. This collection type offers a solution to a common problem; How do you expose the collections in your class but prevent the consumer from modifying them? This is a "problem" with all reference types really, but often it is desirable to expose your collections to consumers. To illustrate this problem consider the following class:   public class [...]