Our F# community group of the week is The San Francisco Bay Area F# Meetup Group. I had the pleasure to meet some of the people in the group last week, at their last meetup held at Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley. Meetups are normally held in San Francisco proper. The two organizers are Matt Harrington and Mathias Brandewinder (@brandewinder on twitter) and other contributors are Darren Platt (of Amyris Biotechnologies), Jack Fox (a major contributor to FSharpx), and Thibault Imbert (of the Adobe game[...]

Our F# community group of the week is the Zurich F# Meetup Group! Marc Sigrist is the current organizer, and the next meeting is on Thursday, Nov 29 at Herostrasse 9. If you're in Zurich, I'm sure Marc and the group would love to have you along   My name is Marc, I am the organizer of The Zurich FSharp Users Meetup Group.   Welcome! We meet a few times a year to discuss F# and functional programming, and to compare it to other languages, paradigms, and frameworks. Some of us use F# on their day job. Other[...]

The Visual F# team are glad to announce that we have now updated the F# Language Specification for F# 3.0 (HTML, PDF)The aim of this update is to document the language features introduced in F# 3.0.  This update covers  the extensions to computation expressions to enable query expressions (see also this video), the CLIMutable attribute, triple-quoted strings, the updates to the ReflectedDefinition attribute that allow it to be used on modules and types, and the "member val" syntax declaration for auto-prop[...]

When we released F# Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web last month, we made a short F# launch video available: F# 3.0 Information Rich Programming. The video featured a sample C#/F# MVC4 ASP.NET app named “B-Movie Madness,” which we’ve now made available as part of the F# 3.0 Sample Pack on CodePlex.  You can browse the source code online, or download and build locally.  The project can be opened and built using either Visual Studio Express for Web (with F# Tools installed) or a full version of [...]

There are lots of resources available for learning more about F#.  In this blog post, I’ll call out some of the best jumping-off points for learning F# through samples, asking questions, and getting involved in the F# community. Code Samples There are a variety of places to get sample code in F#.  To begin, there’s the MSDN documentation for the language and the library.  Many of these individual topics have relevant code snippets.  For those seeking to learn more about the new language features of F# 3.[...]