Cancellable Tasks (IcedTasks)

Introduction

F# has traditionally supported Asynchronous programming with the Async computation expression. However, Tasks in the .NET ecosystem have exploded in usage within the Core library. There has been an interop story by...

FsToolkit.Errorhandling 2.0

TOC

• Introduction
• Applicatives
• Ply
• Source overload
• Conclusion

Introduction

I’m happy to announce FsToolkit.ErrorHandling 2.0. I’ll go over some of the major changes that this release has brought....

(Ab)using Disposables for Integration Testing

(Looking for just the code? Disposable examples)

Introduction

Have you written unit tests against your code but still had some type of issue in production? For example, your code reads and writes...

Visual Studio 2015 Preview Android error.

So I’ve been playing with Visual Studio 2015 because I was curious about the new Android emulator running in Hyper-V. I paired it up with Xamarin and tried to test out a...

MVVM Woes - Output properties

In MVVM, I regularly have output properties, or properties that usually depend on one or more other properties within the viewmodel. For example, say we have two input properties, ‘FirstName’ and ‘LastName’. The output...

Get latest version of mono on Debian/Ubuntu fast-ish

I’ve been dabbling with mono recently since I’ve been getting things to run cross platform. Getting the latest mono code isn’t hard but anytime I build up a VM i have...