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Learn to build applications with F#

Jon Galloway August 30, 2021 Aug 30, 2021 08/30/21

Want to learn how to write write succinct, robust, and performant code with F#? Here's everything you need to get started today!

Tune in July 29 for .NET Conf: Focus on F#

Beth Massi July 26, 2021 Jul 26, 2021 07/26/21

Save the date July 29 for .NET Conf: Focus on F#, a free, one-day livestream event that features speakers from the community and Microsoft teams working on and using the F# language.

Introducing the Half type!

Prashanth Govindarajan August 31, 2020 Aug 31, 2020 08/31/20

The IEEE 754 specification defines many floating point types, including: binary16, binary32, binary64 and binary128. Most developers are familiar with binary32 (equivalent to float in C#) and binary64 (equivalent to double in C#). They provide a standard format to represent a wide range of values with a precision acceptable for many ...

An Introduction to DataFrame

Prashanth Govindarajan December 16, 2019 Dec 16, 2019 12/16/19

Last month, we announced .NET support for Jupyter notebooks, and showed how to use them to work with .NET for Apache Spark and ML.NET. Today, we're announcing the preview of a DataFrame type for .NET to make data exploration easy. If you've used Python to manipulate data in notebooks, you'll already be familiar with the concept of a DataFrame...

.NET Core with Jupyter Notebooks – Available today | Preview 1

Maria Naggaga November 6, 2019 Nov 6, 2019 11/6/19

You can now write .NET Code in Jupyter Notebooks. Try .NET has grown to support more interactive experiences across the web with runnable code snippets, interactive documentation generator for .NET core with dotnet try global tool, and now .NET in Jupyter Notebooks. And you can get started with it today!

The F# development home on GitHub is now dotnet/fsharp

Phillip Carter May 20, 2019 May 20, 2019 05/20/19

TL;DR We've moved the F# GitHub repository from microsoft/visualfsharp to dotnet/fsharp, as specified in the corresponding RFC. F# has a somewhat strange history in its name and brand. If we roll back the clocks to the year 2015, F# sort of had two identities. One side of this was Visual F#, or "VisualFSharp"; a product within Visual ...

Announcing F# 4.6

Phillip Carter March 29, 2019 Mar 29, 2019 03/29/19

We're excited to announce general availability of F# 4.6 and the F# tools for Visual Studio 2019! In this post, I'll show you how to get started, explain the F# 4.6 feature set, give you an update on the F# tools for Visual Studio, and talk about what we're doing next. F# 4.6 was developed entirely via an open RFC (requests for comments) ...

Submit to the Applied F# Challenge!

Phillip Carter February 5, 2019 Feb 5, 2019 02/5/19

This post was written by Lena Hall, a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. F# Software Foundation has recently announced their new initiative — Applied F# Challenge! We encourage you to participate and send your submissions about F# on Azure through the participation form. Applied F# Challenge is a new initiative to ...

Announcing F# 4.6 Preview

Phillip Carter January 24, 2019 Jan 24, 2019 01/24/19

F# 4.6 is now fully released. See the announcement blog post for more. We're excited to announce that Visual Studio 2019 will ship a new version of F# when it releases: F# 4.6! F# 4.6 is a smaller update to the F# language, making it a "true" point-release. As with previous versions of F#, F# 4.6 was developed entirely via an open RFC (...

Announcing F# 4.5

Phillip Carter August 14, 2018 Aug 14, 2018 08/14/18

Today, we’re incredibly pleased to announce general availability of F# 4.5. This post will walk through the changes in F# 4.5 (just like the preview post), then show some updates to F# tooling, and finally talk a bit about where what we’re thinking about for the next F# version. Get started F# 4.5 can be acquired in two ways...

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