In C#, you can define an explicit operator for your type using the explicit keyword: In F#, this will look something like this:

I’ve been using a big of knockout.js of late, and while I don’t mind the ko namespace stuff, I do wish that this had used RxJS instead. I know Steve tried that early on and all; it would just be nice to be able to leverage something with which I’m more fa[...]

[This is the third in a series started long ago on the use of MVC for building web “applications”.] I’m glad I’m only getting back to this series now. I’ve had an opportunity to build many more web applications and have a much better appreciation for the[...]

Software is a product of humans, humans exhibit defects as do their software. Microsoft software is no different. You can report issues on the Microsoft Connect site or to Microsoft Support directly. My recommendation is that if possible you should do bot[...]

You can specify a function which can take in a numeric value with a generic unit of measure easily enough: Similarly, you can also specify a discriminated union whose clauses can be of a numeric value with a generic unit of measure, like this:

Peculiarly I couldn’t find any documented way to create a type extension for a generic array, ‘a [ ], turns out you need to use backtick marks ( ‘ ) around the square brackets in order to do that:

The good news for all F#/SharePoint lovers! As I learned today, 64 bit version of fsi already available as a part of F# 3.0. It is FsiAnyCPU.exe (at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\F#\3.0\Framework\v4.0). These mean that now we should be able to con[...]

This article is an invitation to a number of F# events at the end of summer and during autumn. Aside from F# trainings in New York and London, I will be also doing an F# tutorial at CUFP in Copenhagen.

Thanks to Scott Hanselman, I’m now writing this post with Windows Live Writer 2012.  For all of its miscues over the last couple of years, every now and again, Microsoft comes up with some modest piece of software which really hits it out of the park.  Li[...]