LukeH's WebLog
Benoit Mandelbrot
I just read that earlier today, Benoît Mandelbrot passed away. Mandelbrot’s most famous...
Date: 10/16/2010
Twitter OAuth in F#
I have a few F# demos which use the Twitter APIs as simple examples of accessing online data...
Date: 09/05/2010
F# Scaling from Explorative to .NET Component - F# Talk @ TechEd 2010
Last Thursday I gave an F# talk at TechEd New Orleans titled "F# in Visual Studio 2010". The talk...
Date: 06/13/2010
F# for Parallel and Asynchronous Programming - PDC 2009
Last November at PDC 2009 in Los Angeles I gave a talk on F# for Parallel and Asynchronous...
Date: 01/31/2010
ICFP Programming Contest 2009
This year’s ICFP Programming Contest starts today. We’ve got a team participating, any...
Date: 06/25/2009
F# in Silverlight
Over the last couple years, there has been an explosion of interest in Silverlight. As a .NET-based...
Date: 06/25/2009
F# on Windows Azure
Windows Azure was announced yesterday, and along with it, the first CTP of the SDK and Visual Studio...
Date: 10/28/2008
Standard Deviation and Event-based Programming
A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to do a really fun presentation on F# at the .NET Meetup...
Date: 10/10/2008
F# September 2008 CTP - Known Issues
We released the F# CTP a few weeks ago, and have been receiving tons of great feedback from F#...
Date: 09/17/2008
ICFP Programming Contest
This years' installment of the ICFP Programming Contest is coming up this weekend. For those who...
Date: 07/10/2008
F# at TechEd Orlando 2008
Last week I was down in Orlando for the 2008 US TechEd Developer conference. It was a great...
Date: 06/10/2008
Huffman Coding with F#
I recall my sense of awe when I first wrote a simple compression application using Huffman Coding a...
Date: 05/05/2008
F# Session at TechEd Israel
I've had the opportunity to do a lot of F# presentations recently, which has been really great. Over...
Date: 04/14/2008
F#
A few weeks back, Soma blogged about an increased investment by the Microsoft Developer Division in...
Date: 11/14/2007
Taking LINQ to Objects to Extremes: A fully LINQified RayTracer
Not too long ago I blogged about a C# raytracer which took advantage of a lot of C#3.0 language...
Date: 10/01/2007
Monadic Parser Combinators using C# 3.0
Parser combinators are an idea that I enjoy every time I go back and look at again. They are an...
Date: 08/19/2007
C# 3.0 and CodeDOM
The CodeDOM is a very handy .NET API which allows you to programatically compile code using the .NET...
Date: 07/11/2007
.NET Framework Multitargeting in Visual Studio 2008 (aka Orcas)
One of the really great features I worked on for our upcoming release is ".NET Framework...
Date: 06/29/2007
C#3.0 Session at TechEd2007 - Code Samples
I just presented my C#3.0 session at TechEd Orlando titled "DEV346 - Microsoft Visual C# Under the...
Date: 06/07/2007
F12 - Go To Definition
A few months ago when Bill Gates was on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart asked him a particularly...
Date: 06/04/2007
At TechEd Orlando
I just arrived in Orlando for TechEd 2007. I'll be presenting later on in the week on C#3.0 - but...
Date: 06/04/2007
My Channel9 Video on LINQ in Orcas
Looks like Channel9 just posted a video interview I did about LINQ in Orcas. In the video, I show a...
Date: 05/18/2007
A Ray Tracer in C#3.0
Ray tracers are a lot of fun. When I was in middle school, I discovered POV-Ray and was so excited...
Date: 04/03/2007
In-Memory Query with C#2.0 and C#3.0
Here's some sample code from a demo I did a few months ago. It's a simple example of how much easier...
Date: 03/31/2007
The C# Compiler in Orcas
I started working on the C# compiler team a little more than a year ago, right around the time that...
Date: 03/19/2007
Simplified Build Configurations (or Why Can’t I Change Build Configurations in Express?)
I spend a lot of time on the Express Edition Forums, and there are a few questions I see often...
Date: 10/17/2005
C# is verbose. Verbose is good.
On ScottWil’s blog recently, Thomas Eyde commented on C#, saying “Basically I think C# is too...
Date: 02/02/2005
It’s been a long time…
I don’t think it’s that I haven’t had anything interesting to say for the last 7 months, but somehow...
Date: 02/02/2005
What is in Visual C# Express?
So far, the first two comments I’ve gotten on my blog have been asking essentially the same...
Date: 07/01/2004
C# Express RSS Screensaver
One of the cool projects I’ve worked on as part of working on C# Express is the “starter...
Date: 06/30/2004
Intro + C# Express
Hi, my name’s Luke and I am a program manager on the C# team at Microsoft. I’ve wanted...
Date: 06/30/2004