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Using Visual Studio Codespaces with .NET Core

Tim HeuerMay 21, 2020May 21, 202005/21/20

Learn about how we are enabling .NET Core projects for Codespaces when using Visual Studio 2019.

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

Phillip CarterMay 20, 2019May 20, 201905/20/19

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 ...

Visual Studio 2019 .NET productivity

KendraHavensApril 2, 2019Apr 2, 201904/2/19

Your friendly neighborhood .NET productivity team (aka. Roslyn) focuses a lot on improving the .NET coding experience. Sometimes it’s the little refactorings and code fixes that really improve your workflow. You may have seen many improvements in the previews, but for all of you who were eagerly awaiting the GA release here’s a few ...

Announcing F# 4.6

Phillip CarterMarch 29, 2019Mar 29, 201903/29/19

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) ...

Microsoft’s Developer Blogs are Getting an Update

Jayme SingletonFebruary 13, 2019Feb 13, 201902/13/19

In the coming days, we’ll be moving our developer blogs to a new platform with a modern, clean design and powerful features that will make it easy for you to discover and share great content. This week, you’ll see the Visual Studio, IoTDev, and Premier Developer blogs move to a new URL – while additional developer blogs will ...

Announcing F# 4.6 Preview

Phillip CarterJanuary 24, 2019Jan 24, 201901/24/19

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 (...

.NET Core tooling update for Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2

Phillip CarterJanuary 24, 2019Jan 24, 201901/24/19

Another preview of Visual Studio 2019, another update on the cool stuff going into it! We're pleased to announce some updates to the .NET Core tools for Visual Studio 2019. You can try these changes out starting with Preview 2. We'd love for you to try out these new features and give us feedback. Debugging console apps will use the new ...

.NET Core tooling update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9

Phillip CarterNovember 13, 2018Nov 13, 201811/13/18

Update! Starting with Visual Studio 2019, the option has moved to: Tools > Options > Environment > Preview Features Old post for posterity: Starting with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9, we’ve changed how the Visual Studio tooling for .NET consumes .NET Core SDKs. Prior to this change, installing a preview version of the .NET Core ...

Announcing F# 4.5

Phillip CarterAugust 14, 2018Aug 14, 201808/14/18

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...

F# language and tools update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7

Phillip CarterMay 8, 2018May 8, 201805/8/18

We’re excited to share updates about changes to F# and F# tools which shipped with the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 release. Let’s dive in! Type Providers now support .NET Standard For those who aren’t familiar with Type Providers, they are a feature of F# which allow you to get IntelliSense for data. When pointed at a data source, ...

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