Gordon has a blog post on F# agents with timeouts In my previous post , I showed a code snippet with a very simple F# agent console application. You run the app from the console, and every time you enter a line of text, it generates a new message and posts it to the message queue of an F# agent. An agent... Click here for the full article... Enjoy! Don

Over on the F# team blog we've announced Updates to the August 2011 F# 2.0 Compiler Code Drop   As announced at the Microsoft Research 20th Anniversary event in Cambridge UK, we have updated the F# 2.0 compiler source code drop to include changes related to the www.tryfsharp.org web application. The code drop is the compiler\2.0\Aug2011.1 directory in the F# PowerPack. These changes allow you to compile the F# compiler as a browser-hosted (Silverlight 4.0) component. This can then be hosted inside a browse[...]

Regular readers of my blog will know that from time to time I post pointers to technologies that work with F#, as a service to the F# community. I've blogged in the past about other maths and stats libraries that work with F#, and am adding another one today! StatFactory have released FCore, a .NET/native numerical library that is "specifically designed for those who want to use F# in their quantitative development". Here's a snippet from their website: Our product "FCore" is a .NET numerical library which[...]

Tonight my colleague Byron Cook from MSR Cambridge will be speaking at the F#unctional Londoners meetup group Byron Cook: Proving program termination with F# Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 6:30 PM The Skills Matter eXchange 116-120 Goswell Road,  London (map) In recent years we have seen great progress made in the area of  automatic source-level static analysis tools. However, most of today’s program verification tools are limited to properties that guarantee the absence of bad events (safety pr[...]

The MonoDevelop team have taken a leaf out of the Visual Studio team's book and started MonoDevelop User Voice. Here you can vote on MonoDevelop features and discuss them. One of the hot ticket items you might like to vote for right now is Full Support for F# from MonoDevelop. This would presumably build on this great initial work, which is now on GitHub. Don