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Announcing F# 7

November 8, 2022 Nov 8, 2022 11/8/22

Vlad Zarytovskii

F# 7 is here, see what's new!

.NET Interactive Notebooks is now Polyglot Notebooks!

November 3, 2022 Nov 3, 2022 11/3/22

Claudia Regio

The .NET Interactive Notebooks extension in Visual Studio Code has been renamed to Polyglot Notebooks! Checkout what is new in this release for developers.

F# 6 is officially here!

November 9, 2021 Nov 9, 2021 11/9/21

Kathleen Dollard

F# 6 is released as part of .NET 6. You'll find new task based async, pipeline debugging, and tons of other features!

What’s new in F# 6

October 19, 2021 Oct 19, 2021 10/19/21

Kathleen Dollard

F# 6 is now a release candidate. Checkout all of the new features available in this release.

Learn to build applications with F#

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

Jon Galloway

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#

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

Beth Massi

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!

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

Prashanth Govindarajan

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

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

Prashanth Govindarajan

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

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

Maria Naggaga

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

May 20, 2019 May 20, 2019 05/20/19

Phillip Carter

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 ...

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