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Visual Studio Snippet Designer

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:16:23 GMT

Matthew Manela, an engineer on our Online Tools team, has created and released a free, community-based tool called the Snippet Designer. His tool is a Visual Studio add-in that allows you to create and edit snippets from inside the IDE.

Subversion Support Comes to CodePlex. Sorta'

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:01:02 GMT

A little publicized feature lets you use Subversion to access project hosted on CodePlex - without the need to run SvnBridge locally!

Units of Measure in F#: Part One, Introducing Units

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:41:33 GMT

Part one of Andrew Kennedy's tutorial tackling the new Units of Measure feature of the F# language.

F# September 2008 CTP Released!

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:16:11 GMT

I'm very pleased to announce the availability of the F# September 2008 CTP Release, launched via the new MSDN F# Developer Center. This release represents an important step in the evolution of the F# language as we progress it towards a fully supported language for the .NET platform. A huge thank you to both the F# team and the community members who've helped us trial earlier versions of this release and given us so much excellent feedback.

Functional C# - Unfolding Lists

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:01:03 GMT

Very nice post on implementing ideas from functional programming with C#.

Building an F# powered indexing system

Thu, 08 May 2008 08:46:02 GMT

When I first started dabbling in F#, I really struggled to understand how someone (in particular, me) would sit down and start writing an application from scratch. Project Euler puzzles are a great way to learn syntax (and probably the best place to start), but I would have loved to see a real application's source with a sort of "here's how it was built" narrative. So that's what I'm going to do!

Day-to-day with Subversion

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:46:03 GMT

A good post that highlights some of the functionality of Subversion

Introduction to the FSharp programming language

Wed, 07 May 2008 04:06:01 GMT

A brief introduction to the F# programming language that will be the next one to integrate Microsoft Visual Studio. From the point of view of a C# programmer there's a lot you must learn to master the new concepts related to this powerful functional programming language. See where to download the F# compiler bits and start programming today.

Yet Another Project Euler Series (YAPES)

Tue, 06 May 2008 18:31:02 GMT

For the past several months, I've been using F# to solve at least two Project Euler problems each week. I find this is a great way to sharpen my math skills and my F# skills simultaneously. If you're looking for a way to flex your programming muscles, you really should check out Project Euler.

New F# Compiler Released

Sat, 03 May 2008 02:01:02 GMT

The new version of the F# Compiler was released May 1, 2008. Go download it now.

ReSharper 4.0, I love you but it may be time we break up

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:01:03 GMT

What's happening with R# 4? Every build has more issues than the previous one...

The Developer Exchange Program

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:31:03 GMT

How much better a developer would you be if you could regularly observe another Agile team in action... in person.

SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data, Part 6

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:48:04 GMT

In this, the sixth part of a series about the new spatial data type in SQL Server 2008, methods and properties that return scalar values and Points are demonstrated.

Gravatar, please bring back PNG files!

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Gravatar recently made some big changes when migrating their web application. While most of these changes are a real benefit, there is one big feature that has been removed -- PNG files are no longer supported!

SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data, Part 5

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:16:02 GMT

Part 5 in this series about the new spatial data types in SQL Server 2008 explores the interaction between two Geometry instances in order to produce a new useful instance.

SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data, Part 4

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:31:02 GMT

In the fourth part of the series, instance methods are demonstrated that transform Geometry instances into other useful Geometry instances.

Apples And Oranges

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:16:03 GMT

"[A] recent blog post caused quite a stir on the F# mailing list. The post presents two solutions for Project Euler Problem 14: one in C# and the other in F#. The C# version clearly is hand-optimized for speed (and is indeed very fast), but the F# solution isn't. Instead, the F# code appears to be written with elegance and brevity in mind. Robert Pickering presented a challenge to create a faster F# solution, and the F# mailing list (which had been dormant for a couple of weeks) literally exploded with ideas. . . ."

Browser Beta Battle IE8 vs Firefox 3.0b5

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:46:02 GMT

A quick comparison of page load times on IE8 vs Firefox 3.0b5

SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data, Part 3

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:31:02 GMT

The third article in a series on the new SQL Server 2008 spatial data type explains how to instantiate spatial data types (which are actually SQLCLR UDTs) from T-SQL.

SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data, Part 2

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:46:02 GMT

The second article in a series on the new SQL Server 2008 spatial data type introduces some of the OGC standards that were implemented by Microsoft.

.NET Event Techniques

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:31:02 GMT

A very simple technique to avoid the need for a null check prior to raising an event

Why I Love F#: A Refactoring Tale

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:46:03 GMT

An amazing journey! The author takes fairly naive F# code and transforms it into elegant, beautiful code, introducing language features and concepts along the way.

Digging deeper into C# Lazy Lists

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:08:36 GMT

This post goes over creating a lazy list structure in C# and shows off some common operations to pefrom on them.

SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data, Part 1

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:24:01 GMT

In the upcoming release of SQL Server 2008, developers will have access to two new spatial data types that are included with the product: Geometry and Geography. This first article in a planned series will introduce the concepts behind these two types.

if ... else if ... else if ... else ... : an alternative

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Did you know there's an alternative way of writing "if .. else if .. else if .. etc.." in C#? You probably do, but if you don't, read on...