F# Weekly #47, 2016

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Welcome to F# Weekly, Full version of this weekly you can read here A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Two last open spots in F# Advent Calendar in English (Nov 28 & 29) !!! Announcing the new Visual Studio for Mac The expanding Visual Studio family of products Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate The Data Science Workloads in Visual Studio 2017 RC Live Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2017 RC Announcing .NET Core 1.1 Announcing .NET Core Tools MSBuild “alpha” Welcome Google and Congratulations Samsung! Announcing NuGet 4.0 RC Announcing general availability of Azure Functions Two new chapters were added to Learn F#: "Collections in F#" & "The Pit of Success with the F# Type System" Hero wanted: "StringReader type provider" Videos/Presentations What's New in F# 4.1 - Phillip Carter Setting up Visual Studio Code for Cross Platform F# Development - Jeremy M Kruer .NET Rocks! 1375 Mobile Development using F# with Scott Nimrod Michael Friis - Docker Blogs F# Suave app on dotnet core on Kubernetes on Google Cloud - Tomas Jansson Reconciling Stacktraces with Computation Expressions, Revisited - Eirik Tsarpalis Using Blobs in Azure Functions with F# - Mark Heath Functional Web: Building Web Applications with F# and Suave - Serhiy Kalinets Choosing between .NET Core and .NET Framework for server apps - Phillip Carter F# vNext Visual Studio for Mac Preview 1 Release Notes Visual Studio 2017 RC Sprint 109 Summary F# works already with .NET Core 1.1 (preview2 project.json) F# and .NET Core preview3 (msbuild fsproj vs2017rc) is wip but ok New ideas: Shorthand notations for the if expressions Reverse selection and slice operators Allow Getters and Setters for Primitive Types To Validate and Coerce Values Allow Getters and Setters for Record Field Validation Open source projects FromObjectsToFunctions - An attempt to provide a concrete, working example to demonstrate to C# developers how F# can improve their workflow and performance XSLTUnit.NET - Unit test XSLT with F#. Maybe. New Releases Visual F# PowerTools special edition FSharp.Configuration 0.6.4 FSharp.Compiler.Tools for F# 4.0.1.20 FsVerbalExpressions 0.6.0 Alea GPU 3.0.2 FSharp.Control.FusionTasks.FS40 1.0.12 LanguageExt.FSharp 1.9.7 LanguageExt.Process.FSharp 1.9.7 FSharp.Expandable.Compiler.Core 0.6.13 Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion 0.7.3 That’s all for now. Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – #46 F# Weekly Newsletter by Sergey Tihon