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I love emacs, I've used this for the latest years and when I need open an ide, although Visual studio is an amazing ide, I feel limited and it's very heavy weight for my old computer, I'm using emacs for f# although I feel than emacs is not so appropiate for a static type language, I've seen than...

I've been doing some computationally intensive work in F#. Functions like Array.Parallel.map which use the .Net Task Parallel Library have sped up my code exponentially for a really quite minimal effort....

I was getting an error when I was execting the following query that summed a non-nullable decimal. The magnitude was null when there was no magnitude value for a location/organization combination. ...

I have one type provider that connects to the network to retrieve data....

I come from C# background to F#. So far I wrote simple programs and spent a lot of time in F# interactive....

A usual pattern for CLI application is to run in infinite loop, until user types some quit command. Like, in C language:...

I have a WP7 app that tracks a user's location. All is working fine, except I would like to write the locations to isolated storage on the position changed event of the GeoCoordinate watcher, and I keep getting the "Operation Not Permitted on IsolatedStorageFileStream" message. Can anyone help...

Is there any difference in meaning between t<'a> and 'a t in F#? Can they be used interchangeably even after declaration?

Let's assume I have a series of functions that work on a sequence, and I want to use them together in the following fashion:...

I was looking for this algorithm (algorithm which will randomly select from a list of elements where each element has different probability of being picked (weight) ) and found only python and c implementations, after I did a C# one, a bit different (but I think simpler) I thought I should shar...

I'm experimenting with precompile regexes in an .fsx script. But I can't figure out how to specify the .dll file location for the generated assembly. I've tried setting properties such as CodeBase on the AssemblyName instance used by Regex.CompileToAssembly but to no avail. Here's what I have:...

I wonder where this error is coming from....

I have tried to use FLINQ but it is rather out of date with F# 3.0 beta. Can someone give me some pointers on how to create dynamic SQL queries in F#? Thanks.

FLINQ and the Quotation Visualizer samples used this function but I cannot find it anywhere. Thanks.

I'm attempting to connect to a SQL Server Compact Edition database from F#, and attempting to use a type provider. This is in the Visual Studio 11 Beta, so I realize there might be an issue because of that, but I think it's more likely that I just don't have the know-how yet....

I am playing with parallel programming and F#. I created a function that integrates a 1-variable function, and then I tried to make it parallel in two different ways:...

I would like to craft a simple record type based on fields provided....

I'm defining a monadic observable/reactive parser. This behaves quite differently to a normal parser as it is a continuous query. The underlying type is:...

I've just stumbled across this and I'm a bit puzzled....

I'm trying to get my head around discriminated unions and record types; specifically how to combine them for maximum readability. Here's an example - say a sports team can either have points (both league points and goal difference), or it can be suspended from the league in which case it has no...