WebSharper has seen a few more releases, the latest being 2.4.63. In a nutshell, you now can: Update HTML templates in sitelets without recompiling the solution and see immediate changes Use VS in Windows Phone 7 and Eclipse in Android templates, taking advantage of more customization opportunities and IDE services such as an integrated debugger Use HttpContext.Current.Session in sitelets and remote/RPC methods Use Visual Studio 2011 Beta, .NET 4.5, Windows 8, F# 3.0, even if you do not have the previou[...]

WebSharper 2.4.35 is a bugfix release, fixing offline site generation and other important issues. See the complete list of changes.

I have been thoroughly enjoying our latest project at IntelliFactory. Me and Loïc Denuzière, the creator of FPish, are working together for the U Nebraska Medical Center on genetic visualization with HTML5/WebSharper/F#. The organism of interest is Staphylococcus aureus. We have built an interactive chart showing its genome coding sequences and a few thousand transposon insertions performed in the UNMC labs. You are welcome to play with the latest prototype. It has been fun to do some graphics and modu[...]

WebSharper 2.4, our latest F# web stack based on a F#-to-JavaScript compiler, is out today, and it is open source, with a dual licensing model: you either use AGPL + OSS exceptions or purchase a commercial license. See details at websharper.com, and source at bitbucket.org.

I discovered a memory leak in Async.StartChild and here discuss a workaround based on a Future abstraction. I noticed what appears to be a memory leak in F# standard library function Async.StartChild. This happened in a context of a socket server, where I attempted to perform socket reading and writing in parallel. It seems that memory use slowly grows and memory profiler points to some CancellationTokenSource-related objects not being released. As a non-leaking alternative, I used my own abstraction[...]