Sometimes in F# it is useful to use LINQ extension methods such as .Take(n), .Skip(n) and .Count(). However, in F# some LINQ extension methods such as .Where(...) and .Select(...) require a type annotation on the lambda variable. This is one of the relati[...]

At the Visual F# team, we're glad to be contributors to the broader F# language and community through the Visual F# tools, the free F# Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web, and the open source code drops of the F# compiler and libraries. As part o[...]

Reading source code is hard. One way of dealing with this is rewriting what is not understood. This can help focus on some parts of the code, but can be detrimental since it’s easy to overlook functionality in files that are not touched or files that look[...]

Microsoft Research Cambridge have a 5 month contract position available to explore appliications of F# Information Rich Programming to some or all of open government data scientific data standards cloud programming protocols such as Protobuf web programm[...]

Tech Mesh - The Alternative Programming Conference is designed to support and promote useful non-mainstream technologies in the software industry and dedicated to users and inventors of various languages and technologies. By offering a networking platform[...]

As of today I’ve completed my fifth course at Coursea, all but one being directly related to Machine Learning. The fact that you can now take classes given by many of most well known researchers in their field who work at some of the most lauded instituti[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, F# shines like a diamond in the daily coding routine. Piece of that shine from this past week: News Zach Bray announced FunScript. (F# to JavaScript compiler with JQuery etc. mappings through a TypeScript type provider) The Nuget tea[...]

I have been obsessing about the following idea lately – what if I could run a FSI session from within Excel? The motivation behind this is double. First, one thing Excel is good at is creating and formatting charts. If I could use F# for data manipulation[...]

I currently do a lot of Office type automation work where I scan a bunch of email from exchange, download excel attachments, open and transform a bunch of data from them, reconcile these against databases using FLinq, produce graphs and charts with the re[...]