As part of our open engineering efforts, we are working with the F# community to enable better Web Project support in the Visual F# Tools, including "publish to web". If you would like to contribute to this or test early versions it, please see the detail[...]

Following up on the last Roslyn preview way back in 2012, this week saw the availability of a new preview with a more complete compiler along with a few new language features for C# and VB. A lot of inspiration for these features seems to have come from t[...]

It's been a scandalously long time since I've blogged about C#, and now that the first C# 6 preview bits are available, that feels like exactly the right thing to set the keys clacking again. Don't expect anything massively insightful from me just yet; I'[...]

It’s been a scandalously long time since I’ve blogged about C#, and now that the first C# 6 preview bits are available, that feels like exactly the right thing to set the keys clacking again. Don’t expect anything massively insightful from me just yet; I’[...]

A bugfix release of CloudSharper in preparation for the upcoming remote multi-user server feature.

The Visual F# Team are very happy to announce that, through our participation in Microsoft Open Technologies (MSOpenTech) and in conjunction with the F# community, we are now able to accept contributions to the Visual F# Tools.  Through this, we will also[...]

Microsoft’s Build 2014 conference is currently in full flow, one of the new products announced is Orleans, an Actor framework for Azure. There’s an MSDN blog article with some details, apparently it was used on Halo 4. Demis Bellot of ServiceStack fame,[...]

Having studied Haskell and F# and done a lot of C# coding in functional style I realize that “void” declaration …Continue reading →

In this exciting installment of my notes from Emerging Languages Camp last year, some information about the Daimio and Babel programming languages. If you haven’t seen it already, you might want to read the Introduction to this series. Daimio: A Language [...]

At last, the long wait is fianlly over! After 4 years of waiting, the fully managed implementation of the C# compiler [codenamed "Roslyn"][roslyn] has been finally released. In the recent months, "Roslyn" has been slowly turning into [vaporware][vaporw[...]