In April, at the Xamarin Evolve conference, Xamarin announced support for the F# language as part of the Xamarin tools for iOS and Android app programming. Microsoft were Platinum sponsors of Xamarin Evolve.   This Thursday at the F#unctional Londoners' Meetup we have Neil Danson on F# on iPad and iPhone in Xamarin Studio. Neil Danson will take you through developing apps for iPad and iPhone with F# using Xamarin Studio. See also http://fsharp.org/use/ios/ Bio: Neil Danson is a Senior Software Developer an[...]

  Next Tuesday I'll be taking part in an IEEE Computer Society Webinar about Try F#. Please join us! Register here. Date:  Tuesday, May 7, 2013 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT / 19:00  GMT (Duration: 1 hour)   Try F# is an easy on-ramp to learning F#, a simple and pragmatic programming language combining functional, object-oriented and scripting programming. During the webinar you will learn how to use the tutorials to solve real-world scenarios, including analytical programming and information-rich programming e[...]

Last week, at the Xamarin Evolve conference, Xamarin announced support for the F# language as part of the Xamarin tools for iOS and Android app programming. Microsoft were Platinum sponsors of Xamarin Evolve. Videos from Evolve will be available soon (link). In the meantime, you can watch Miguel de Icaza, one of the founders of Xamarin, discuss the F# support they have added  (the F# part starts at 21min 55s) in this Channel 9 video The announcement from Xamarin means you can now create iOS and Android app[...]

Tonight (actually in about half an hour) Dmitry Morozov will be talking at the F# New York City Meetup on F# MVC for WPF. F# is known as a great language to express complex algorithms, crunch numbers and process all kinds of data. Have you ever wondered if it can be effectively used for such down-to-earth task as WPF GUI development? “F# MVC for WPF” is a small yet powerful framework designed for building WPF applications in F#. With strong support for MVC, functional, asynchronous and event-driven program[...]

Over on the Visual F# team blog we have an article introducing you to using QuantLib from F#: A Guest Blog in conjunction with Alexandre Radicchi (alex.radi@gmail.com) F# is an attractive language to use in Financial Engineering because of its functional-first methodology, succinctness, strong typing, data-integration, stability, maturity, tooling and performance, as well as its supported editions in Visual Studio, its open-source edition, its cross-platform execution and its widespread availability. You c[...]