Tag Archives: Visual Studio

Calling MSBuild tasks with F#

By ian | Published: March 31, 2010

It’s easy to call MSBuild tasks directly from F#. Although possibly unnecessary.

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Generating and plotting random numbers

By ian | Published: November 24, 2009

An example of generating random numbers in F# and visualising their distribution using the WPF charting control.

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Pinned DataTips in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

By ian | Published: November 2, 2009

I’ve just noticed a nice little feature in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2: pinned DataTips. Values displayed in the debugger as you hover over a variable can now be pinned in place and remain aligned with the source. They can even have annotations added… Tasty!

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Installing Windows SDK breaks F# Visual Studio integration

By ian | Published: April 14, 2009

Beware! If you install the Windows SDK – perhaps to get access to the interesting looking WPF performance tools – you’ll find that it hoses your F# Visual Studio integration. I found that it causes intellisense tooltips to stop appearing, and the integrated F# interactive to crash Visual Studio. Both of these issues are a [...]

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Visual Studio Toggle Brackets Macro

By ian | Published: February 9, 2009

After using a F# heavily for a while, I often found myself wanting to add brackets (or rather, parentheses) around some text. This is normally when adding a type specification to an argument in order to be able to use dot notation, e.g. going from:

let typeName t = t.Name

which causes “error FS0072: Lookup on object [...]

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