There are three ways you can start working with F# without any extra cost depending on your starting point. Depending on if you have a Macintosh or a Windows computer, you will have different choices. Also, if you already have Visual Studio Professional 2010 or 2012, then stop reading because you already have F#. Visual…

F# Lightning Talks

Our next F# User Group meeting takes place on Monday, February 13, 2012 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at Microsoft NERD Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA. All interested are welcome to join us. Register Online for F# Lightning Talks If you are curious about F# and want to learn more, this is a perfect opportunity…

Welcome to Windows 8

I’m very excited about the talk I’m giving at Microsoft Cambridge at the Boston Tech Meetup called “Welcome to Windows 8” on Monday, January 16, 2012, where I’ll be talking about installing the pre-beta developer preview. I’ll also be talking about developing Metro style Windows 8 apps and customizing the developer preview. This is a…

F# and SharePoint

Six months ago, Varun Yadav asked about any benefit using F# with SharePoint 2010. To see his comments and my response click here. Although I have not played around with combining the two, I recently searched the net to see if I could see any evidence of the two being used together. I found some blog…

Code Camp New Hampshire 2010

Next Saturday, June 5th, all day, the New Hampshire Dot Net User Group is running the second NH Code Camp at New Hampshire Technical Institute (NHTI.) I will be presenting on F# and Silverlight in the morning around 9:45 AM. There is a whole Silverlight Track that John Garland will be delivering throughout the day including Intro to Silverlight…

Visual Studio 2010

What a great week for Microsoft developers! Visual Studio 2010 released Monday. Silverlight 4 released yesterday. The Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio are still in RC with the second release candidate made available this week. Plus, the SharePoint team just anounced that SharePoint 2010 RTM today. Another important milestone is that F# is…

F# and Silverlight at Microsoft Cambridge, Monday Night

If you missed my talk on Silverlight last Saturday at the Microsoft Waltham Code Camp 13, I’ll be doing the presentation again with more time to go into more details at the Microsoft Cambridge office near MIT on Monday night April 5th, 2010 at 6:30 PM. Please join. Everyone is welcome. We usually have pizza and sodas. It will be…