Category Archives: F#

C# Async Examples in F# – Part 3

By Chris Marinos | Published: October 1, 2011

This post is the third of a series where I am converting the C# 101 Async Samples into F#. See below for the other entries in the series: C# Async Examples in F# – Part 1 C# Async Examples in F# – Part 2 The third async example deals with running operations in parallel. The […]

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C# Async Examples in F# – Part 2

By Chris Marinos | Published: August 18, 2011

This post is the second of a series where I am converting the C# 101 Async Samples into F#. See below for the other entries in the series: C# Async Examples in F# – Part 1 C# Async Examples in F# – Part 3 The second C# Async example deals with making multiple asynchronous web […]

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C# Async Examples in F# – Part 1

By Chris Marinos | Published: August 8, 2011

This post is the first of a series where I am converting the C# 101 Async Samples into F#. See below for the other entries in the series: C# Async Examples in F# – Part 2 C# Async Examples in F# – Part 3 Some of you may be familiar with my boss and C# […]

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Five Reasons the MVP Summit was Awesome

By Chris Marinos | Published: March 23, 2011

At the start of March, I was fortunate enough to follow up my awesome time at the Java Posse Roundup with an equally awesome time at Microsoft’s MVP Summit. It was my first time at a Summit, so much like the Roundup, I didn’t know what to expect. In the end, it was every bit […]

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F# on (Ubuntu) Linux with Mono and Monodevelop

By Chris Marinos | Published: February 17, 2011

This week, I’m attending the Java Posse Roundup to learn about the interesting things happening on the JVM, meet smart people, and hopefully write some Scala and Clojure code. One of the more surprising emails that I got after registering for the conference came from Dick Wall who asked if I could take an afternoon […]

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C# Expressions vs. F# Quotations: A Syntax Comparison

By Chris Marinos | Published: September 21, 2010

In C# the easiest and most common way to create an expression is by implicitly converting a single line lambda into an expression: This implicit conversion is great for some APIs, like the mocking library MOQ: When I use MOQ, I’m glad that the l => l.Count lambda automatically gets converted to an expression, but […]

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Revisiting Elevate: Seq.pairwise for C#

By Chris Marinos | Published: September 10, 2010

I’ve been working on a few different projects over the last few months including some work outside of the .NET space. This has been good for my clients, but not so good for Elevate. Fortunately, I found some time the other day to add a new feature: a pairwise implementation for C#. In F#, the […]

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5 Reasons to use F# Interactive in Visual Studio 2010

By Chris Marinos | Published: August 29, 2010

Note: While the following post is targeted at Visual Studio 2010 users, most of the points apply even if you aren’t using Visual Studio 2010. F# Interactive (FSI) is easy (and free) to install for Visual Studio 2008 users and command line users running in Windows or Mono. Details are available at the F# Developer […]

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F# Object Expressions vs Mocking Libraries: Am I Missing Something?

By Chris Marinos | Published: June 10, 2010

Object expressions are a cool feature of F#. For those unfamiliar, they allow you to easily instantiate anonymous classes: There are times when it’s useful to instantiate anonymous classes in this fashion (a topic for another post), but I’m not convinced that mocking is one of them. However, based on based on a couple of […]

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Building F# Projects in Expression Blend Without Installing Visual Studio

By Chris Marinos | Published: June 4, 2010

Recently, one of our projects hit a snag when I added a F# project to our WPF application. While our developers were able to build the project in Visual Studio 2010 and the Expression Blend 4 RC, our designer was unable to build from within the Expression Blend 4 RC because he did not have […]

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