28. May 2009 23:55 by David in
I have finally got around to installing VS 2010 Betaand debugging with F# ACTUALLY works! Six months of having to add variables to the watch window, instead of being able to move my mouse over the variable declaration was getting very tiring… At the moment the F#/IDE integration story is very poor and makes it hard to justify using F# for simple problems that can be just as easily solved using C#. That excuse thankfully no longer applies.
I loaded up a couple of the F# projects from work and they all compile/pass our unit tests which as you can imagine was a great relief. It appears as though there has been a “big” cleanup around naming conventions within the core F# libraries and many of the methods that we were leveraging have now been marked as obsolete. Thankfully Microsoft decided to “obsolete” the methods and not remove the old functions entirely.