# F# Weekly #49, 2018 – F# Tooling Update and gifts from F# Advent bloggers **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** news\ **Created:** [December 8, 2018, 9:59am UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-49-2018-f-tooling-update-and-gifts-from-f-advent-bloggers/580 "2018-12-08T09:59:05Z")\ **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** - [Announcing ML.NET 0.8 – Machine Learning for .NET](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/12/02/announcing-ml-net-0-8-machine-learning-for-net/) - [Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 1 and Open Sourcing Windows Desktop Frameworks](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/12/04/announcing-net-core-3-preview-1-and-open-sourcing-windows-desktop-frameworks/) - [Announcing .NET Core 2.2](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/12/04/announcing-net-core-2-2/) - [Take C# 8.0 for a spin](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/12/05/take-c-8-0-for-a-spin/) - [Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3694](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/11/28/announcing-net-framework-4-8-early-access-build-3694/?wt.mc_id=AID723316_QSG_SCL_303221&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral) - [Announcing WPF, WinForms, and WinUI are going Open Source](https://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingWPFWinFormsAndWinUIAreGoingOpenSource.aspx) - [Graph view for ast-viewer is live!](https://twitter.com/jindraivanek/status/1069363073352376320) - SAFE: [Full Stack Debugging](https://safe-stack.github.io/docs/feature-debugging/) - [F# app in Windows Store](https://twitter.com/xperiandri/status/1070678133953712128) - [Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration](https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/microsoft-edge-making-the-web-better-through-more-open-source-collaboration/#jtstwBjW7KK823DD.97) - [Announcing .NET Foundation Open Membership](https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2018/12/04/announcing-net-foundation-open-membership) **Videos & Slides** - [F# Tooling Updates for Visual Studio 2017](https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/On-NET/F-Tooling-Updates-for-Visual-Studio-2017?WT.mc_id=channel9-twitter-cephilli) - Phillip Carter (On .NET) - [F# Pattern Matching - Language Essentials Series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpUAVoqfnm8&feature=youtu.be) - Dave Thomas - [F# and other shenanigans](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/343758053?filter=archives&sort=time) - Chet Husk - [Learning to write a View Extension for Fabulous - I want that Carousel View working!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/345912638?filter=all&sort=time) - Gareth Hubball - [The Little Typer With Dan Friedman and David Christiansen](https://corecursive.com/023-little-typer-and-pie-language/) - [Object oriented vs Functional. An example involving binary trees and state pattern.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54YK4I7_KGI) - Toni Lucca [**F# Advent**](https://sergeytihon.com/2018/10/22/f-advent-calendar-in-english-2018/) - [WTF is WTF#?](https://stachu.net/wtf-is-wtf/) - Stachu Korick - [F# Domain Design: Interdependent Enums and Booleans.](http://deliberate-software.com/fsharp-design-enums/) - Steve Shogren - [Orleans with F# story](https://medium.com/@alexander.prooks/orleans-with-f-story-6036045f1f10) - A. Prooks - [Fable Tekno – Use body tracking to drive music synthesis in the browser](https://olney.ai/category/2018/12/02/fabletekno.html) - Andrew Olney - [F# & Q# – A tale of two languages](https://johnazariah.github.io//blog/2018/12-04-tale-of-two-languages/index.html) - John Azariah - [State Transitions through Sequence Diagrams](https://wizardsofsmart.wordpress.com/2018/12/05/state-transitions-through-sequence-diagrams/) - Ryan Riley - [Three.js + F# + Fable = ❤](https://medium.com/@volhasamusik/three-js-f-fable-3a177085f34f)- Olya - [Building a CPU Emulator with Fable 2.1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50YhcG9qqQg&feature=youtu.be) - Dave Thomas - [A Christmas Classifier](https://medium.com/@willie.tetlow/f-advent-calendar-a-christmas-classifier-72fb9e9d8f23) - Willie Tetlow - [Full F# Blog](https://thinkbeforecoding.com/post/2018/12/07/full-fsharp-blog) - Jérémie Chassaing - [Strongly typed HTML templates with FSharp without a framework](https://medium.com/@akoslukacs42/strongly-typed-html-templates-with-fsharp-without-a-framework-9971575d7fb4) - Akos Lukacs **Blogs** - [FSharp - Currying and Partial Application](http://www.garethrepton.com/Partial-Application/) - Gareth Reptons - [BigInteger to String in Any Base with F#](https://stuartlang.uk/bigint-to-string-in-any-base-fsharp/) - Stuart Lang - [Is that a Giraffe?](https://dev.to/tunaxor/is-that-a-giraffe-416d) - Angel D. Munoz - [Currying in Javascript and C#, to Serverless Currying?](http://blog.neilhighley.com/2018/12/currying-in-javascript-and-c-to-serverless-currying) - Neil Highley - [Reactive Marble Testing with Functional Combinators in F#](https://www.codit.eu/blog/reactive-marble-testing-with-functional-combinators-in-f/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=tweet&utm_campaign=blog-reactive-marble-testing-with-functional-combinators-in-f) - Stijn Moreels - [Give me Monsters! (Part 7)](http://brandewinder.com/2018/12/03/give-me-monsters-part-7/) - Mathias Brandewinder - [F# is Pretty Cool](https://dev.to/deciduously/f-is-pretty-cool-23dj) - Ben Lovy **F# vNext** - [WIP --- Package Management for FSI](https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/pull/5850#issuecomment-440290927) **Open source projects** - [CompositionalIT/kibalta](https://github.com/CompositionalIT/kibalta) - A simple F# wrapper over the .NET Azure Search SDK **New Releases** - [Saturn 0.8.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Saturn/) - [CosmoStore 1.3.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/CosmoStore/1.3.0) - [Fulma 2.0.0](https://mangelmaxime.github.io/Fulma/#blog-viewer?file=blog/articles/fulma_2.0.0.md) - [TensorFlowSharp 1.12.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/TensorFlowSharp/1.12.0) > That’s all for now. Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – [#48, 2018](http://sergeytihon.com/2018/12/01/f-weekly-48-2018-f-advent-starts-tomorrow/)