# F# Weekly #30, 2024 – F# Nullness Checking & Avalonia 11.1

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**Created:** [July 27, 2024, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-30-2024-f-nullness-checking-avalonia-11-1/3692 "2024-07-27T11:26:40Z")\
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Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [What's new in .NET Aspire 8.1 for cloud native developers! - .NET Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/whats-new-in-aspire-8-1/)
- [Avalonia 11.1: A Quantum Leap in Cross-Platform UI Development](https://avaloniaui.net/blog/avalonia-11-1-a-quantum-leap-in-cross-platform-ui-development)
- [ReSharper 20 years! | The .NET Tools Blog](https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2024/07/23/resharper-20-years/)
- [Add AI to Your .NET Apps Easily with Prompty - .NET Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/add-ai-to-your-dotnet-apps-easily-with-prompty/)
- [How use a Blazor QuickGrid with GraphQL - .NET Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/how-use-a-blazor-quickgrid-with-graphql/)
- [Announcing .NET Conf: Focus on AI - August 20th 2024 - .NET Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnetconf-focus-on-ai/)
- [Visual Studio tip: Using Ctrl-L to delete a line with and without Clipboard backup - Visual Studio Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-tip-deleting-a-line/)

**Videos**

- [How to use Fathom Analytics with F# + Giraffe.ViewEngine - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSVJ8wt-IOQ)
- [.NET Aspire Developers Day - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrmSizuEv58)
- [On .NET Live - Introduction to .NET Aspire with Azure Container Apps - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HCfpRVIpmE)

**Blogs**

- [Types from data: Making structured data first-class citizens in F# (PLDI 2016 - Research Papers) - PLDI 2016](https://pldi16.sigplan.org/details/pldi-2016-papers/37/Types-from-data-Making-structured-data-first-class-citizens-in-F-)
- [Why we love SAFE Stack – F# | Compositional IT](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/why-we-love-safe-stack-fsharp/)
- [Three data architectures for the server](https://blog.ploeh.dk/2024/07/25/three-data-architectures-for-the-server/) - Mark Seemann

**F# vNext**

- [[RFC FS-1060] Nullness checking by dsyme · Pull Request #15181 · dotnet/fsharp · GitHub](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/15181)

**Highlighted projects**

- [CompositionalIT/farmer: Repeatable Azure deployments with ARM templates - made easy!](https://github.com/compositionalit/farmer)
- [fsprojects/FSharpx.Extras: Functional programming and other utilities from the original "fsharpx" project](https://github.com/fsprojects/FSharpx.Extras)
- [Nhowka/Elmish.Bridge: Create client-server Fable-Elmish apps keeping a single mindset](https://github.com/Nhowka/Elmish.Bridge)

**New Releases**

- [Avalonia 11.1](https://x.com/AvaloniaUI/status/1815401188277244346)
- [altcover 8.8.165](https://www.nuget.org/packages/altcover/8.8.165#releasenotes-body-tab)
- [CompositionalIT.Console 0.0.3](https://www.nuget.org/packages/CompositionalIT.Console#releasenotes-body-tab)
- [Elmish.Bridge.Suave 7.0.1](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Elmish.Bridge.Suave#readme-body-tab)
- [Elmish.Bridge.Giraffe 7.0.1](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Elmish.Bridge.Giraffe)
- [FSharpx.Extras 3.2.1](https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharpx.Extras#versions-body-tab)
- [FSharpx.Text.StructuredFormat 3.2.1](https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharpx.Text.StructuredFormat)
- [Oxpecker.ViewEngine 0.10.2](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Oxpecker.ViewEngine#releasenotes-body-tab)
- [Murphy.ByteString 4.0.4.29637](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Murphy.ByteString#versions-body-tab)
- [Farmer 1.9.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Farmer)

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