F# Weekly #4, 2017

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Customizable naming rules came to FSharpLint
• Azure Functions F# Developer Reference
• F# for Azure Notebooks
• The Visual Studio Test Platform (VSTest) is now Open Source
• The week in .NET – On .NET with David Pine, PwdLess, Terraria
• Virtual Panel: What’s Next for .NET?

This is @terrajobst using a phone with a map on top of a map because reasons. Remember, this man designs your .NET API layers. pic.twitter.com/iKfyiIP7Ae

— Nick Craver (@Nick_Craver) January 18, 2017

Videos

• ASP.NET Monsters #85: Suave Web Services
• Programming Like Functions Matter with Jimmy Burrell and Scott Wlaschin
• Security testing in the cloud with F# and Project Springfield – Seth Juarez
• Fast Neural Network… a no brainer! – Riccardo Terrell

Blogs

Follow me if you are looking for #fsharp jobs, I already have more than 1000 followers!!! pic.twitter.com/7yq8m71NpD

— fsharpJobs (@fsharpJobs) January 21, 2017

• Star Wars : Rogue One, Type Provider edition – Ross McKinlay
• On the topic of 2D array performance in .NET – Mårten Rånge
• F# Unit Testing Simplified – Expecto with Visual Studio Code – Tom Prior
• From F# to Scala – case class/object (ADTs) – Yan Cui
• Headless Front End Testing on Linux using F# and Canopy – Coder’s Coffee House
• Elmish now supports RemoteDev time-travelling debugger – Eugene
• Parsing iTunes XML Data with F# – Ody Mbegbu
• .NET Core Image Processing – Bertrand Le Roy
• Getting Fable To Work With JavaScript Libraries For Functions With Multiple Arguments – Justin Sacks
• Experimenting with data in F# – Chris Alexander
• Project.json to MSBuild conversion guide – Nate McMaster

F# vNext

Apparently I just parsed a piece of #fsharp code with F# compiler running as a pure node app, kudos to ncave https://t.co/Bp49bNKCuF

— Alfonso Garcia-Caro (@alfonsogcnunez) January 16, 2017

• Announcement for VS2017 RC3
• PR: WIP Integrate visualfsharp master
• New RFC:
  • F# RFC FS-1029 – (Implement IReadOnlyCollection<‘T> in list<‘T>)

Just did a quick cleanup of https://t.co/rvlvBKiyEQ – 27 improvements for error messages in. Great job all – you know who you are! #fsharp

— Isaac Abraham (@isaac_abraham) January 20, 2017

Open source projects

• Minesweeper – Minesweeper in F# & iOS.
• csharp-uniontypes – DSL, parser and code-generator for Union Types (discriminated unions/sum types) in C#
• FSharpHero – Handmade Hero in F#
• fable-suave-scaffold – Working sample of a Suave + Fable + Elmish project with hot reloading
• SimpleVideoEncoder – A simple video encoder for F# on Windows (Uses Media Foundation).

New Releases

yay! Thanks to @ashtonkj and especially @hmemcpy we now have a @PaketManager addin for VS2017 RC https://t.co/rkY63fkfNS

— Steffen Forkmann (@sforkmann) January 19, 2017

• Expecto v3.2.0
• Fsharp.ViewModule 1.0.5
• Ionide:
  • Package autocomplete in paket.dependencies
  • Autocomplete of installed packages in paket.references file
  • Direct support for MsBuild (MsBuild commands)

That’s all for now. Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #3