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F# 5 and F# tools update

Phillip CarterMay 20, 2020May 20, 202005/20/20

We're excited to announce some updates to F# 5 today! We shipped a lot of preview features since F# 5 preview 1, and they have all been stabilizing since that release. Today, we're happy to announce some minor additions to F# 5 and talk about some pretty cool performance work we've been doing. Here's how you get the latest release: ...

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 ...

F# language and tools update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6

Phillip CarterMarch 6, 2018Mar 6, 201803/6/18

With the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6, we’re excited to share updates to the F# language and core library, F# tooling in Visual Studio, and infrastructure updates that concern OSS contributors. Let’s dive in! F# language and core library updates Some foundational changes for the F# language and core library have been ...

Announcing F# support for .NET Core and .NET Standard projects in Visual Studio

Phillip CarterNovember 15, 2017Nov 15, 201711/15/17

We're pleased to announce that Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Preview 4 now supports F# projects targeting .NET Core, .NET Standard, and .NET Framework through the .NET Core SDK. Some of you have noticed various levels of this support in the first, second, and third previews. We still had a few work items left to complete when those were released, so...

Why you should use F#

Phillip CarterMay 31, 2017May 31, 201705/31/17

Why you should use F# This post was written by Phillip Carter and Mads Torgersen. Both work on languages on the .NET team. At Build 2017, we presented a tech talk entitled "Why You Should Use F#". However, not everyone can attend Build, and many attendees were unable to find a position in the room where they could adequately hear us. You ...

Releasing F# Language Documentation as Open-Source

Den Delimarsky [MSFT]May 17, 2016May 17, 201605/17/16

Guest post by Den Delimarsky, Program Manager, Butt & Enterprise Continuing our efforts to make our documentation more flexible and open, we are releasing the F# language documentation as open-source. This means that starting today you can both easily download the most up-to-date documents for offline consumption, as well as contribute to...

fsharpConf 2016

Visual FSharp Team [MSFT]March 2, 2016Mar 2, 201603/2/16

Join us this Friday, March 4th on Channel 9 for the first ever fsharpConf! Tune in starting at 8:30am PST (16:30 GMT). Inspired by dotNetConf, fsharpConf is a free, online-only, day-long conference featuring an awesome lineup of talks from the F# community. Check out the fsharpConf site for more details, and follow @fsharpConf on Twitter. See...

[Guest Post] Announcing F# Support in Visual Studio Code with Ionide

Visual FSharp Team [MSFT]December 3, 2015Dec 3, 201512/3/15

This is a guest post by Krzysztof Cieślak, an F# community developer and contributor to the Ionide project including its Visual Studio Code extension. To learn more about F# and engage with the community, head to fsharp.org. To learn more about the Ionide project, head to ionide.io.Ionide is a suite of packages for the Atom editor that ...

Announcing .NET Framework 4.6

Rich Lander [MSFT]July 20, 2015Jul 20, 201507/20/15

Update: See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. We’re excited to announce the RTM releases of .NET Framework 4.6 and Visual Studio 2015 today. You can read about the new features or leave that for later and try them out now. The quickest way to get started is to install the free Visual Studio 2015 Community version. ...

Thank you for your contributions

.NET TeamJuly 2, 2015Jul 2, 201507/2/15

Since going open source, Roslyn has had 45 and Visual F# has had 29 unique code contributors external to Microsoft. To celebrate and appreciate our first contributors, we sent them each a small gift in the mail: a mug with the classic “cup of tea” language joke as well as the SHA1 of their first commit engraved on the back of the ...

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