# F# Weekly #4, 2019 – F# 4.6 Preview & SkyLight

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**Tags:** news\
**Created:** [January 26, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-4-2019-f-4-6-preview-skylight/656 "2019-01-26T20:52:55Z")\
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A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [Announcing F# 4.6 Preview](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2019/01/24/announcing-f-4-6-preview/)
- [fuget.org now shows package \*dependents\*. Ever wonder who's using your library? Now you'll know!](https://twitter.com/ChetHusk/status/1089236343337730048)
- [F# section was added to Wikipedia Fluent Interfaces page](https://twitter.com/jamie_dixon/status/1086822692316168196)
- [An interview with Erik Schierboom](https://exercism.io/blog/interview-with-erik-schierboom)
- [Super Simple Git Tagging & Releases in Azure DevOps](https://montemagno.com/super-simple-git-tagging-releases-in-azure-devops/)
- [Complete boilerplate for Electron apps w/ Fable 2 and Elmish, hot module reloading, time-travel debugging, etc](https://twitter.com/cmeeren/status/1085866781850255360)
- [.NET Core tooling update for Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2019/01/24/net-core-tooling-update-for-visual-studio-2019-preview-2/)
- [Do more with patterns in C# 8.0](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2019/01/24/do-more-with-patterns-in-c-8-0/)
- [Debugging .NET Apps with Time Travel Debugging (TTD)](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2019/01/25/debugging-net-apps-with-time-travel-debugging-ttd/)
- [Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 is now available](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2019/01/24/visual-studio-2019-preview-2-is-now-available/)
- [Introducing Uno WebAssembly Projects and Debugging](https://hackernoon.com/introducing-uno-webassembly-projects-and-debugging-f360d4776df3)

**Videos & Slides**
- [DIY: Episode 6 - Event Streams, Aggregates and Outro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f3IRbbt-0w&feature=youtu.be) - Roman Sachse
- [Introduction to Fable.Remoting @ FSharping meetup, Prague 04.12.2018](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV1C9R1pfhk) - Mikhail Smal

**Blogs**
- [SkyLight: Composable UI Hackery with WPF](https://medium.com/@gerardtoconnor/skylight-composable-ui-hackery-with-wpf-3950634db451) - Gerard
- [Fable 2 Interview with Fable Creator Alfonso García-Caro](https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/01/fable-2-release-interview)
- [The Power of F# Discriminated Unions](https://medium.com/techdev-mix/the-power-of-f-discriminated-unions-e3883b8e40a6) - RecursiveEnigma
- [.NET deep learning stack: CNTK 101: Logistic Regression](https://areslazarus.com/archive/net-deep-learning-stack-cntk-101-logistic-regression/) - Ares Lazarus
- [[F# Game Tutorial] Game Abstraction](http://blog.yjpark.org/blog/2019/01/22/fsharp-game-tutorial-game-abstraction/) - YJ Park
- [Panzer General Domain-Driven Design](https://jamessdixon.wordpress.com/2019/01/22/panzer-general-domain-driven-design/) - Jamie Dixon
- [Building with FAKE on Azure DevOps](https://mallibone.com/post/building-with-fake-on-azure-devops) - Mark Allibone

**F# vNext**
- [Add Test Cases for FSharp](https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/pull/22183)
- [Create FS-1067.md - Async.Sequential](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/pull/348)
- [Ionide: Add smart indent support](https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp/pull/994)

**Open source projects**

[https://twitter.com/dsyme/status/1088969586345689088](https://twitter.com/dsyme/status/1088969586345689088)

- [gerardtoconnor/Skylight](https://github.com/gerardtoconnor/Skylight) - A composable high level window library for F# and WPF to explore using Computation Expression UI
- [enkomio/shed](https://github.com/enkomio/shed) - .NET runtime inspector
- [humhei/FCSWatch](https://github.com/humhei/FCSWatch/) - Run standard fsharp codes in watch mode
- [gusty/FsPad](https://github.com/gusty/FsPad/) - HTML based pretty print for F# values
- [kunjee17/FabScaffold](https://github.com/kunjee17/FabScaffold) - Scaffold application to get started with Fabulous
- [cmeeren/fable-elmish-electron-material-ui-demo](https://github.com/cmeeren/fable-elmish-electron-material-ui-demo) - Complete boilerplate for Electron apps using Fable 2 and Elmish with hot module reloading, time-travel debugging, etc.

**New Releases**
- [Bolero 0.2](https://twitter.com/Tarmil_/status/1088112249812721672)
- [vscode fsharp refactor 0.5.5](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=danmannock.vscode-fsharp-refactor)
- [WebSharper 4.5.6](https://github.com/dotnet-websharper/core/releases/tag/4.5.6.320)
- [DependentTypes 0.3.0](https://twitter.com/foxyjackfox/status/1087059167624351744)
- [SAFE.Template 0.46.0 with .NET Core 2.2](https://twitter.com/mvsmal/status/1087475750268227584)

[https://twitter.com/sgoguen/status/1088284048101904384](https://twitter.com/sgoguen/status/1088284048101904384)

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –[](http://sergeytihon.com/2018/12/15/f-weekly-50-2018-bolero-f-tools-for-webassembly/)[#3, 2019](http://sergeytihon.com/2019/01/19/f-weekly-3-2019-category-theory-for-dotnet-programmers-fabulous-0-3/)
