Articles filed in category 'F#'

F# 5: A New Era of Functional Programming with .NET

By: Phillip Carter

Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0

Microsoft has updated F# 5 with new features that include FSI in .NET Core and support for packages in NuGet. Plus F# 5 now supports Jupyter Notebooks as well as Visual Studio Code Notebooks, and more.

• .NET Core
• .NET Framework
• F#
• Functional Programming

Immutability in C#

By: John Petersen

Last updated: Thursday, April 1, 2021

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - May/June

If your application uses multi-threading, immutability should be part of it. John covers how to enforce and work with immutable objects, despite C#’s lack of native support for them.

• Agile Development
• C#
• Design Patterns
• F#
• Other Languages

Writing Concurrent Programs Using F# Mailbox Processors

By: Rachel Reese

Last updated: Monday, May 17, 2021

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - July/August

Rachel takes a close look at F# mailbox processors to help you efficiently process messages. She covers replying, scanning (for a particular message or subject), and coordinating multiple agents, and makes it easy once you know which connections to make.

• .NET 4.5
• .NET Framework
• Design Patterns
• F#
• Functional Programming
• Visual Studio .NET
• Visual Studio 2013
• Visual Studio 2015
• Visual Studio 2017

Tooling for Your .NET Projects

By: Rachel Reese

Last updated: Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - May/June

You’ve been plodding along, nose to the grindstone, and you might not have realized that there are some useful tools out there that can make your .NET projects a little more fun to build. Rachel explores Paket, F# Formatting, and FAKE.

• .NET Core
• ADO.NET
• F#
• Functional Programming

Accessing Your Data with F# Type Providers

By: Rachel Reese

Last updated: Monday, May 24, 2021

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - March/April

You can access just about any data with type providers, whether in XML, JSON, or APIs. Rachel shows us how, plus a nifty new Swagger type provider.

• .NET 4.0
• .NET 4.5
• Design Patterns
• F#
• Functional Programming
• Type Providers

Using F# Type Providers for Data Science

By: Rachel Reese

Last updated: Thursday, May 27, 2021

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - January/February

You know that F# is the Next Big Thing, but did you know that it uses type providers? Rachel shows you how to use them to access data in no time.

• Business Intelligence
• Data Science
• F#
• Type Providers

Case Study: Writing Microservices with F#

By: Rachel Reese

Last updated: Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - November/December

If you’re lucky enough to be involved in building a new enterprise system, you’ll want to check this out. Rachel takes a look at how the company where she works made some interesting—and forward-looking—decisions, and she shows us the benefits of microservices while she’s at it.

• .NET 3.0
• .NET 3.5
• .NET 4.0
• .NET 4.5
• .NET Core
• .NET Framework
• Architecture
• Design Patterns
• F#
• Functional Programming
• Microservices

Why F#

By: Rachel Reese

Last updated: Saturday, April 22, 2023

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - May/June

Functional programming is all the rage and Microsoft's foray into the functional world is called F#. Rachel introduces you to this first-class functional language with the ability to harness the rich .NET ecosystem.

• .NET 3.5
• .NET 4.0
• .NET 4.5
• .NET Assemblies
• .NET Framework
• Development Process
• F#
• Functional Programming
• Other Languages

Smashing the Myth: Why You Must Learn F# - Even If You Aren’t Writing Rocket Science Apps

By: Aaron Erickson

Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2012 - March/April

If you are a .NET software developer, you have heard of F#. You may have read an article, seen a talk at a user group, or otherwise heard the buzz. However, if those means of reaching you have failed, at the very least, you have noticed it conspicuously appear in the list of languages you can base a solution on in Visual Studio 2010. If you write code on the .NET Framework, you would have to be living under a rock to have not heard of F#.

• .NET 2.0
• .NET 3.0
• .NET 3.5
• .NET 4.0
• .NET Framework
• C#
• F#
• Functional Programming
• Object Oriented Development

F# 101

By: Ted Neward

Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - September/October

F#, the latest member of the Visual Studio family of languages, offers some enticing advantages over C# and Visual Basic, stemming from its functional-object fusion nature.Originally a research language from Microsoft Research, F# has long been a “secret weapon” in the arsenal of .NET programmers for doing statistical- and mathematical-heavy coding. More recently, however, a growing number of developers have begun to see the inherent advantages implicit in writing functional code, particularly in the areas of concurrency. The buzz has begun to approach interesting levels, particularly on the heels of an announcement last year from the head of the Microsoft Developer Division, Somasegar, that F# would be “productized” and fully supported by Microsoft as a whole, suddenly removing the stigma and licensing restrictions that surround research projects.

• F#
• Functional Programming
• Parallel Programming