# F# Weekly #13, 2020 – F# Online, VSMac and Ionide updates

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**Created:** [March 28, 2020, 9:27am UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-13-2020-f-online-vsmac-and-ionide-updates/1244 "2020-03-28T09:27:06Z")\
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Welcome to F# Weekly,  
A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [Catch up on the latest .NET Productivity features](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/catch-up-on-the-latest-net-productivity-features/)
- [Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 2 Brings New Features Your Way](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2019-version-16-6-preview-2/)
- [Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 is now available](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2019-for-mac-version-8-5-is-now-available/)
- [Visual Studio Subscriptions resources for remote learning and productivity](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-subscriptions-resources-for-remote-learning-and-productivity/)
- [ASP.NET Core Apps Observability](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/observability-asp-net-core-apps/)
- [COVID-19 Graphs F#](https://notebooks.azure.com/jmarr/projects/covid-19-graphs-fsharp) by jmarr

**Videos and Slides**
- All videos: [.NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin 2020](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdo4fOcmZ0oW4W_qQr_dlnKtAfTB0Ezl9)
- [Rapid Data Analysis with F# Series - Web Hosting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8kfYpXpw3Y) - Compositional IT
- [Building and exploring with F#](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/573847851) - 7sharp9
- [Go compiler written in F#](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/572050593) - Frank A. Krueger
- [Hacking F# OSS tooling](https://www.twitch.tv/k_cieslak/videos) - Krzysztof Cieślak
- [.NET Design Review: GitHub Quick Reviews](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcE-wGQC_eM&feature=youtu.be)
- [Visual Studio: .NET Community Standup - March 19th 2020 - Q&A with Kendra and Cody](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x__dzVDwGOU)
- [ASP.NET Community Standup - Mar 24, 2020 - Introducing Project Tye](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzNEHrWM78o)
- [[RU] Антон Молдован. Modeling Pub/Sub API system with F# and CQRS (on micro-scale). .NET Fest 2019](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFpdt57iuM)
- [Episode 15: Support multiple files and compiler driver](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/575083333) - terrajobst

> <https://twitter.com/fsharponline/status/1242436423837454340>

**Blogs**

- [Introduction to Functional Programming in F# - Part 8](https://www.softwarepark.cc/blog/2020/3/22/introduction-to-functional-programming-in-f-part-8) - Ian Russell
- [Introduction to Functional Programming in F# - Part 9](https://www.softwarepark.cc/blog/2020/3/22/introduction-to-functional-programming-in-f-part-9) - Ian Russell
- [Dealing with complex dependency injection in F#](https://bartoszsypytkowski.com/dealing-with-complex-dependency-injection-in-f/) - Bartosz Sypytkowski
- [Integrated Random Testing](http://anthonylloyd.github.io/blog/2020/03/18/integrated-random-testing) - Anthony Lloyd
- [Learning F# - Step 1](https://darrensnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/learning-f-step-1.html) - Darren Hale
- [Learning F# - Step 2](https://darrensnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/learning-f-step-2.html) - Darren Hale
- [Learning F# - Step 3](https://darrensnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/learning-f-step-3.html) - Darren Hale
- [Microsoft previews F# 5](https://www.infoworld.com/article/3533990/microsoft-previews-fsharp-5.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#tk.rss_all) - Paul Krill

**F# vNext**

> <https://twitter.com/JasonImison/status/1243235367987433479>

- dotnet/fsharp: [Add devcontainer definition for Visual Studio Online](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/8800)
- FsAutoComplete: [Add integration with extendable #r from F# 5.0](https://github.com/fsharp/FsAutoComplete/pull/578/files)
- [How to play with Fantomas on F# Interactive](https://github.com/fsprojects/fantomas#ionide)
- New RFCs:
  - [F# RFC FS-1084 - Allow using nameof as a constant in pattern matching](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/master/RFCs/FS-1084-nameof-pattern.md)
  - [F# RFC FS-1083 - Don't require a space before SRTP type parameter](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/master/RFCs/FS-1083-srtp-type-no-whitespace.md)
  - [F# RFC FS-1082 - `uint` Type Abbreviation in FSharp.Core](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/master/RFCs/FS-1082-uint-type-abbreviation)

- F# Language Suggestions:
  - [Async.map](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/859)
  - [Allow Type Augmentation Extension on composite types](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/858)
  - [Make indexers consistent with slicers for flexible types](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/855)
  - [Optional arguments in DU constructors](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/854)

**GitHub projects**
- [Zaid-Ajaj/navigation-bar-with-feliz](https://github.com/Zaid-Ajaj/navigation-bar-with-feliz) - Modern navigation bar built with Feliz
- [Angel Daniel Munoz Gonzalez/Fezcoro](https://gitlab.com/AngelMunoz/Fezcoro) - This is a simple client for Covid19 API free API
- [BinaryDefense/BinaryDefense.FSharp.Analyzers](https://github.com/BinaryDefense/BinaryDefense.FSharp.Analyzers) - Security analyzers for the FSharp (F#) language
- [praeclarum/ImmutableUI](https://github.com/praeclarum/ImmutableUI) - Immutable objects that mirror popular object oriented UIs

**New Releases**
- [Bolero 0.12](https://twitter.com/fsbolero/status/1241476177585418244)
- [BinaryDefense.FSharp.Analyzers.Hashing 0.1.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/BinaryDefense.FSharp.Analyzers.Hashing/)

> <https://twitter.com/k_cieslak/status/1241695308456824843>

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – [#12, 2020](http://sergeytihon.com/2020/03/21/f-weekly-12-2020-f-5-net-5-preview-1-and-the-elmish-book/)
