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F# Deep Dives Review and Author Q&A

F# Deep Dives, edited by Tomas Petricek and Phillip Trelford, is a new book aimed at showing what is the business value that using F# brings in practice. The book presents 11 real industrial scenarios and the way F# allowed field experts to solve them using a functional-first approach. InfoQ has interviewed Tomas Petricek, co-editor of the book.

Sergio De Simone
on Feb 18, 2015
Simplifying F# Type Provider Development

Type Providers are an essential element for F#’s extensibility model, but creating new ones can be a chore. Dave Fancher shows how to take the tedium out authoring Type Providers using some simple inline factory methods.

Dave Fancher
on Feb 13, 2015
Visual Basic 14 Language Features

Visual Basic, just like Visual Studio, will be skipping directly from version 12 to version 14. Though many of these features are also new to C#, there are quite a few enhancements meant specifically to smooth some of VB’s rough edges. Here are some of the more interesting we were able to find.

Jonathan Allen
on Dec 27, 2014
Creating a Sales Dashboard with Bootstrap and ShieldUI

Bootstrap is a front-end framework, which addresses important development problems such as element positioning, application responsiveness and multi-device rendering. This article shows how to use it, along with ShieldUI, to create a sales dashboard.

David Johnson
on Dec 19, 2014
Using C# and Wix# to Build Windows Installer Packages

Even with WiX, working with Windows Installer packages can be quite difficult. Oleg Shilo’s solution is to ditch the XML entirely and create MSI packages using traditional C# code.

Jonathan Allen
on Dec 10, 2014
Introducing Essence#: A Smalltalk-based Language for .NET

There are two basic schools of thought when it comes to Object Oriented Programming: the method based Simula and the message based Smalltalk. The Simula school is well represented in .NET by C# and VB. With Alan Lovejoy’s Essence#, we can see what a Smalltalk inspired language would look like on the CLR.

Jonathan Allen
on Nov 12, 2014
SQL Server Source Control and Deployment with Visual Studio

The holy grail of database development is the ability to treat database objects (tables, views, stored procedures, etc.) as if they were just like any other form of source code. While SQL Server Data Tools doesn’t quite that level, it gets very close.

Jonathan Allen
on Nov 04, 2014
Introduction to Red Gate’s SQL Source Control

It’s unthinkable for modern application developers to work without source control. The benefits it brings to software development are so well and so long understood that even lone hobbyist developers will tend to employ a source control system. Yet somehow, databases are often left out. David Atkinson shows how this doesn’t have to be the case with Red Gate’s SQL Source Control.

David Atkinson
on Oct 01, 2014
Interview with Thomas Imart, Creator of Tweetinvi

In this installment of our .NET Open Source series we talk to Thomas Imart. His library, Tweetinvi, is designed to make working with Twitter’s Stream API easier to use.

Jonathan Allen
on Aug 18, 2014
Review and Interview with Dean Hume - Author of Fast ASP.NET Websites

In the review, Anand examines the coverage of Fast ASP.NET Websites authored by Dean Hume. The book helps developers to learn the various techniques associated with the optimization of ASP.NET websites.

Anand Narayanaswamy
on Jun 13, 2014
Improving Your Asynchronous Code Using Tasks, Async and Await

Dave Marini delves into the history of asynchronous programming on the .NET platform, tracing through the early days of the Asynchronous Programming Model to today’s async/await patterns.

Dave Marini
on May 06, 2014
The Book of F# - Review and Interview with Dave Fancher

The book of F#, authored by Dave Fancher examines the concepts associated with F# with the help of comprehensive explanation and relevant source codes. Towards the end of the book, Fancher provides coverage of advanced topics such as asynchronous and parallel programming.

Anand Narayanaswamy
on Apr 08, 2014