F# Weekly #25, 2021 - .NET Conf: Focus on F# & Phillip Carter's Announcement

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Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 now available! | Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
• Announcing .NET 6 Preview 5 | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 5 | ASP.NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 5 | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Conversation about networking | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Conversation about diagnostics | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Migration of Bing’s Workflow Engine to .NET 5 | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Visual Studio 2019 16.11 Preview 2 | Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
• Type less, code more with IntelliCode completions | Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
• Implementing Chromecast with Xamarin.Forms | Xamarin Blog (microsoft.com)
• Update a Visual Studio extension for VS2022 - Visual Studio | Microsoft Docs
• What’s new with .NET on Azure Functions – June 2021 - Microsoft Tech Community
• Visual Studio 2022 Preview Release Notes | Microsoft Docs

Phillip Carter

Videos and Slides

• Dev Impressions Ep.5 with Paul Blasucci - YouTube
• Dev Impressions Ep. 4 with Isaac Abraham - SAFE Stack & Farmer - YouTube

Blogs

• Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Honeycomb | Phillip Carter's blog
• Getting started with Machine Learning and .NET Notebooks - Ryan Palmer

F# vNext

.NET Foundation

• New language suggestions
  • Support explicit generic constraints of multiple specializations of the same generic interface · Issue #1036
  • Checked arithmetic operators · Issue #1035
  • Infer record names from types · Issue #1034
  • Implicit seq construction when curly braces are provided to seq arguments · Issue #1033
  • Generalising arithmetic operators in non-inline functions · Issue #1032

Highlighted projects

• pimbrouwers/Donald: A simple F# interface for ADO.NET.
• MoritzHamann/FSharp.Solr: Solr library for F#
• Zaid-Ajaj/DustyTables: Thin F# API for SqlClient for easy data access to ms sql server with functional seasoning on top
• tonyx/orderssystem: a system to automate the ordering process in restaurants
• AngelMunoz/Sutil.Generator: A wrapper on top of https://shoelace.style and https://fast.design
• AngelMunoz/suave-dev-server-poc
• s5bug/EmuFish: Extensible emulator framework
• dam5s/ninja-pang-fsharp: Ninja Pang re-implemented with MonoGame in F#

New Releases

• Pulsar.Client 2.4.0
• NBomber v2.0.3
• Sutil.Shoelace 2.0.0-beta.43.1
• FsAutoComplete 0.46.2
• paket-lock-diff
• Sutil.Fast 1.21.6-beta

F# Europe 2021

Skills Matter

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

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