# F# Weekly #22, 2021 - .NET 6 Preview 4 and .NET Conf 2021 dates **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** news\ **Created:** [May 29, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-22-2021-net-6-preview-4-and-net-conf-2021-dates/1716 "2021-05-29T15:00:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: **News** - [F# and F# tools update for Visual Studio 16.10 | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/f-and-f-tools-update-for-visual-studio-16-10/) - [Announcing .NET 6 Preview 4 | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-6-preview-4/) - [ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 4 | ASP.NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/asp-net-core-updates-in-net-6-preview-4/) - [Introducing the .NET Hot Reload experience for editing code at runtime | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-hot-reload/) - [Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 4 | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-maui-preview-4/) - [ASP.NET Core 6 and Authentication Servers | ASP.NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/asp-net-core-6-and-authentication-servers/) - [Announcing Entity Framework Core 6.0 Preview 4: Performance Edition (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-entity-framework-core-6-0-preview-4-performance-edition/) - [Visual Studio 2019 v16.10 and v16.11 Preview 1 are Available Today! | Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2019-v16-10-and-v16-11-preview-1-are-available-today/) - [What's New for F# in Visual Studio 16.10 -- Visual Studio Magazine](https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2021/05/27/fsharp-in-vs2019-16-10.aspx) **Videos and Slides** - [Why Every Day as a Developer Would Be Easier with F#, by Urs Enzler - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Ies_XTo_s&ab_channel=JetBrainsTV) - [Future Tech 2021: Luca Bolognese - Introduction to Functional Programming in F# - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BfOpsx2rwI&ab_channel=FutureTech) - [The future of modern application development with .NET (microsoft.com)](https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions/76ebac39-517d-44da-a58e-df4193b5efa9?utm_source=devtools-social&utm_medium=event&utm_campaign=build&utm_content=watchlive) - [Azure DevOps Podcast: David Ortinau on Multi-Platform App Development Using .NET MAUI - Episode 142](http://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/david-ortinau-on-multi-platform-app-development-using-net-maui-episode-142) **Blogs** - [Client side GraphQL with F#](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/client-side-graphql-with-f/) - Akash Mair - [Doing some IO in F#](https://dev.to/tunaxor/doing-some-io-in-f-4agg) - Angel D. Munoz - [Introduction to Functional Programming in F#](https://www.lucabol.com/posts/2021-05-20-functional-programming-introduction-with-fsharp/) - Luca Bolognese - [.NET Basics - Dusted Codes](https://dusted.codes/dotnet-basics) - Dustin Moris Gorski - [Taking Advantage of the platform with Sutil and Web Components](https://dev.to/tunaxor/taking-advantage-of-the-platform-with-sutil-and-web-components-5hm0) - Angel D. Munoz - [Grokking Lenses](https://dev.to/choc13/grokking-lenses-2jgp) - Matt Thornton **F# vNext** > - [feature/fastlist - faster list/array computation expressions by dsyme](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/11592) - [Regression on SDK 5.0.300: When using an identifier like \_\_SOURCE\_DIRECTORY\_\_ in a type parameter one get FS3045 compilation error. · Issue #11610 · dotnet/fsharp](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/issues/11610) - [Language selection by dbrattli · Pull Request #2448 · fable-compiler/Fable](https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable/pull/2448) - New language suggestions - [Make C# methods with both optional and ParamArrays parameters easier to use from F# · Issue #1013](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1013) - [Unsigned right shift operator · Issue #1012](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1012) - [Assigning to tuples of assignables · Issue #1011](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1011) - [Show better error message when shadowing an existing identifier in a pattern · Issue #1010](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1010) - [Support base methods in closures · Issue #1009](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1009) **Highlighted projects** - [mausch/TypeProviderPlayground](https://github.com/mausch/typeproviderplayground) - Experiments with F# type providers - [Smaug123/fsharp-vectors](https://github.com/Smaug123/fsharp-vectors)- Type-safe vectors in F# - [Arshia001/FSharp.GrpcCodeGenerator](https://github.com/Arshia001/FSharp.GrpcCodeGenerator) - A protoc plugin to enable generation of F# code - [TheAngryByrd/TypeSafeInternals](https://github.com/TheAngryByrd/TypeSafeInternals) - Uses Myriad to generate type safe reflection calls to internal functions/properties/methods. - [humhei/FCSWatch](https://github.com/humhei/fcswatch) - Run standard fsharp codes in watch mode - [gimpf/TomlProvider](https://github.com/gimpf/tomlprovider) - An F# type provider for TOML files **New Releases** - [Giraffe 5.0.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Giraffe/) - [Giraffe.TokenRouter 2.0.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Giraffe.TokenRouter/2.0.0) - [Fable 3.2.0](https://twitter.com/dev_talk/status/1398114404021977089) - [FSharp.XExtensions 1.2.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharp.XExtensions) - [NBomber v2.0.1](https://twitter.com/AntyaDev/status/1396782938902179847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1396782938902179847%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=file%3A%2F%2F%2FUsers%2Fsergey%2FDownloads%2FFsharpWeekly2021-week21 __05-29__ 13-51.html) - [FsToolkit.ErrorHandling 2.5.0](https://twitter.com/Jimmy_Byrd/status/1397930605053161472) - [BinaryDefense.FSharp.Analyzers 0.2.2](https://twitter.com/Jimmy_Byrd/status/1396844688108367877) - [MiniScaffold 0.26.4](https://twitter.com/Jimmy_Byrd/status/1397190721069883396) - [SqlHydra.SqlServer v0.40.0](https://twitter.com/jordan_n_marr/status/1397248838105174020) - [FSharp.SystemTextJson 0.17.4](https://twitter.com/Tarmil_/status/1397638611449880581) > That’s all for now. 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