The Microsoft Visual F# team are pleased to announce the availability of our code drop of an F# 3.1 compiler, library and tests. This code drop corresponds to the release of the Visual F# Tools for F# 3.1 as part of Visual Studio 2013. We have also recently released some great new samples showing the unique power of F#. F# is an open, cross-platform language and you can read testimonials about how F# is used in the software industry at the pages of the F# Software Foundation, a major community organization[...]

(This is a slightly edited cross-posting of this blog from Xenomorph). We are glad to bring you a sample demonstrator for applying the F# 3.0 Type Providers and the Visual Studio Tools for F# to enterprise financial data sources, both on-premise and cloud-hosted in Azure. At F# in Finance (London Edition), Don Syme of Microsoft Research demonstrated F# connecting to the Xenomorph TimeScape financial data provision service running on the Windows Azure cloud. The code is available as a sample (which you can [...]

On Monday Microsoft hosted the first “F# in Finance” at Microsoft’s corporate offices in London, co-organized by Fountainhead Consulting.   The next "F# in Finance" event will be in New York City on 11 December, you can register now!   The London event was the first event of its kind and attendess including leading quantitative finance experts from major global banks. About half the audience were already using F# in production in financial enterprises, nearly all stayed through to the end of the event. Som[...]

  Three days until F# in Finance in London on Monday, 25th November.  Brought to you by Microsoft and Fountainhead Labs.   F# in Finance (registration) Date: Monday 25th November 2013, 8:00am to 6:15pm. Venue: Microsoft, Cardinal Place 80-100 Victoria St, London, SW1E 5JL. Twitter: @FountainheadLab, #FSharpInFinance If you are interested in functional programming as it applies to finance (and also insurance too), this event is for you. With a great line up of speakers you will see how F# and the function[...]

Tonight at ThoughtWorks in San Francisco, 6pm: When designing software, we often need to solve numerous instances of the same problem. When designing user interfaces, we need to describe the layout and interaction. For financial systems, we need to describe a wide range of financial contracts or, for example, recognize different patterns in price change.  Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) give us a way to solve such repeating problems. By designing a composable functional library, we can build an expressive[...]