I love property intializers, both in C# and F# and just think that they can be so useful and convenient especially with stuff like WinForms and WPF where you often find yourself newing up some element and then in the next 2 or 3 lines setting some properties to specific values. Anyway, this post isn...

It all started with an email Mohamed Hossam (AKA, Bashmohandes) sent to SilverKey Tech. (the company I work for) local office here in Egypt, referring to the article " Foundations of Functional Programming - Part 1 - B# .NET Blog ". It inspired me to send few more language links: Linklist 03022008...

Last week, the 2008 Lang.NET symposium was held last week. If you're not familiar with what that is, it's a discussion about languages, compilers and libraries within the .NET space. It's been one of those things I'd love to attend just to understand where Miguel de Icaza , Anders Hejlsberg , Luke Hoban...

I often rethink or have additions to my posts. This topic of what's coming in C# vNext is definitely one of them. I'm always looking for ways to push the envelope to see what I can get from the language. I have to credit such people as Scott Bellware and others to look more outside of the C# bounds and...

In a previous post, I posted about the Lang.NET symposium and rolling your own compiler. I cited an MSDN article that was a good starter for someone interested in writing that new language in .NET we've all been waiting for. It's not by any means to get you towards finishing IronRuby by yourself, but...

As you may have seen from previous posts, I have been covering Lang.NET and some of the interesting things that came from it. I've always been interested in compilers, DSLs and such, and I hope you found them interesting as well. I covered it these posts here: Adventures in Compilers - Building on the...

Update: Added more topics Part 3 - Scope, Recursion and Anonymous Functions Part 4 - History of F#, Operators and Lists I know it's been a little bit too long since I began this series from when I continued, but plenty of distractions came up along the way. I intend to go a little deeper today into what...

UPDATE: More posts on the subject xUnit.net RC3 Just Released Earlier this week, I wrote about the latest release of xUnit.net RC2. Since that time, Brad Wilson and Jim Newkirk released a new version to fix some of the issues with regards to TestDriven.NET integration and ASP.NET MVC integration. You...

Time for another adventure in F#, covering some of the basics of functional programming and F# in particular. Today we'll manage to look more at regular .NET integration and .NET programming. With the previous efforts, we've looked more at functional programming and in turn F# specific things, but want...

I know the title might catch a few people off guard, but let me explain. Side effecting functions, for the most part, are code smells. This is a very important concept in Domain Driven Design (DDD) that's often overlooked. For those who are deep in DDD, this should sound rather familiar. And in the end...