# F# Weekly #33, 2021 - .NET 6 Preview 7 and Paket 6

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**Created:** [August 14, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-33-2021-net-6-preview-7-and-paket-6/1782 "2021-08-14T12:51:03Z")\
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Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [Essential Functional-First F# by Ian Russell [PDF/iPad/Kindle] (leanpub.com)](https://leanpub.com/essential-fsharp)
- [Announcing .NET 6 Preview 7 | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-6-preview-7/)
- [ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 7 | ASP.NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/asp-net-core-updates-in-net-6-preview-7/)
- [Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 7 | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-maui-preview-7/)
- [String Interpolation in C# 10 and .NET 6 | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/string-interpolation-in-c-10-and-net-6/)
- [Preview Features in .NET 6 - Generic Math | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/preview-features-in-net-6-generic-math/)
- [Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3 now available! | Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2022-preview-3-now-available/)
- [Visual Studio 2019 v16.11 is Available Now! | Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-16-11/)
- [Personalize Your Visual Studio 2022 | Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/personalize-your-visual-studio-2022/)
- [Multi-repo Support in Visual Studio | Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/multi-repo-support-in-visual-studio/)

> <https://twitter.com/PaketManager/status/1424700522611761155>

**Videos and Slides**

- [Languages & Runtime Community Standup - Succinct, robust and performant code with F# - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M3oO1zeJBU&ab_channel=dotNET)
- [.NET MAUI Community Standup - Get to MAUI with the .NET Upgrade Assistant feat. Sweeky! - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIQfrUfIovk&ab_channel=dotNET)
- [The .NET Docs Show - Frankenblogging: Static Site Generators and .NET 5 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vdg8rhsZQw&ab_channel=dotNET)
- [ASP.NET Community Standup - Simplifying web apps with new minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 6 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMrKGC7CnEk&ab_channel=dotNET)
- [On .NET Live - The cutting edge of the Razor engine - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnBNH2qhqnA&ab_channel=dotNET)

**Blogs**

- [Notes from Chatting About Learning F#](https://github.com/dsyme/fsharp-presentations/blob/master/design-notes/notes-on-learning-fsharp-1.md) - Don Syme
- [Delta-state CRDTs: indexed sequences with YATA](https://bartoszsypytkowski.com/yata/) - Bartosz Sypytkowski
- [Azure Functions with F# using .NET 5](https://dev.to/choc13/azure-functions-with-f-using-net-5-3348) - Matt Thornton
- [Let’s get physical](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/lets-get-physical/) - Ryan Palmer

**F# vNext**

- [F# RFC FS-1112 - Obsolete allowed to use Obsolete](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/RFCs/FS-1112-obsolete-allowed-to-use-obsolete.md)
- Merged: [[RFC FS-1113] Additions to collection functions](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/11888)
- [Feature: breakpoints on pipeline stages by dsyme · Pull Request #11957 · dotnet/fsharp · GitHub](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/11957)
- F# Language Suggestions:
  - [Array2D creation syntax · Issue #1058](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1058)
  - [Allow explicit public on members to emit public in .NET metadata even in internal types · Issue #1057](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1057)
  - [Allow do bindings in structs · Issue #1056](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1056)

> <https://twitter.com/dsymetweets/status/1426325176669679617>

**Highlighted projects**

- [pimbrouwers/Donald: A simple F# interface for ADO.NET.](https://github.com/pimbrouwers/Donald)
- [landy/parcel-safe-stack-example](https://github.com/landy/parcel-safe-stack-example)
- [davedawkins/Fable.Formatting.Markdown: Port of FSharp.Formatting.Markdown for Fable](https://github.com/davedawkins/Fable.Formatting.Markdown)
- [8/git-contributors: Commandline utility that prints out git contributor stats in several formats](https://github.com/8/git-contributors)
- [zanaptak/BufferedCryptoRandom: A buffered and thread-safe wrapper around the cryptographic random number generator for .NET and Fable. Compatible with the System.Random interface, plus additional convenience methods.](https://github.com/zanaptak/BufferedCryptoRandom)
- [zanaptak/PcgRandom: A PCG pseudorandom number generator implementation for .NET and Fable. PCG is a family of simple fast space-efficient statistically good algorithms for random number generation.](https://github.com/zanaptak/PcgRandom)
- [JordanMarr/SqlHydra: SqlHydra is a collection of dotnet tools that generate F# records for a given database provider.](https://github.com/JordanMarr/SqlHydra)
- [UnoSD/Pulumi.FSharp.Extensions: F# computational expressions to reduce boilerplate in Pulumi code](https://github.com/UnoSD/Pulumi.FSharp.Extensions)

**New Releases**

- [FSharp.Configuration 2.0.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharp.Configuration/2.0.0)
- [Paket 6.0](https://twitter.com/PaketManager/status/1424700522611761155)
- [WebSharper 5 ❤ Giraffe + Saturn - stay tuned for upcoming betas](https://twitter.com/granicz/status/1425239737082728448)
- [Fable.Formatting.Markdown 1.0.1](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Fable.Formatting.Markdown)
- [SqlHydra.Query 0.200.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/SqlHydra.Query/)

> <https://twitter.com/k_cieslak/status/1424130004661723136>
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> Krzysztof Cieślak @k\_cieslak

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