Get Programming with F#: A guide for .NET developers

Summary

Get Programming with F#: A guide for .NET Developers shows you how to upgrade your .NET development skills by adding a touch of functional programming in F#. In just 43 bite-sized chunks, you’ll learn how to use F# to tackle the most common .NET programming tasks.Examples use the familiar Visual Studio environment, so you’ll be instantly comfortable. Packed with enlightening examples, real-world use cases, and plenty of easy-to-digest code, this easy-to-follow tutorial will make you wonder why you didn’t pick up F# years ago! FForewords by Dustin Campbell of Microsoft and Tomas Petricek of fsharpWorks.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

Your .NET applications need to be good for the long haul. F#’s unique blend of functional and imperative programming is perfect for writing code that performs flawlessly now and keeps running as your needs grow and change. It takes a little practice to master F#’s functional-first style, so you may as well get programming!

About the Book

Get Programming with F#: A guide for .NET developers teaches F# through 43 example-based lessons with built-in exercises so you can learn the only way that really works: by practicing. The book upgrades your .NET skills with a touch of functional programming in F#. You’ll pick up core FP principles and learn techniques for iron-clad reliability and crystal clarity. You’ll discover productivity techniques for coding F# in Visual Studio, functional design, and integrating functional and OO code.

What’s Inside

• Learn how to write bug-free programs
• Turn tedious common tasks into quick and easy ones
• Use minimal code to work with JSON, CSV, XML, and HTML data
• Integrate F# with your existing C# and VB.NET applications
• Create web-enabled applications

About the Reader

Written for intermediate C# and Visual Basic .NET developers. No experience with F# is assumed.

About the Author

Isaac Abraham is an experienced .NET developer and trainer. He’s an F# MVP for his contributions to the .NET community.

Table of Contents

Unit 1 F# and Visual Studio
Lesson 1 The Visual Studio experience
Lesson 2 Creating your first F# program
Lesson 3 The REPL—changing how we develop

Unit 2 Hello F#
Lesson 4 Saying a little, doing a lot
Lesson 5 Trusting the compiler
Lesson 6 Working with immutable data
Lesson 7 Expressions and statements
Lesson 8 Capstone 1

Unit 3 Types and functions
Lesson 9 Shaping data with tuples
Lesson 10 Shaping data with records
Lesson 11 Building composable functions
Lesson 12 Organizing code without classes
Lesson 13 Achieving code reuse in F#
Lesson 14 Capstone 2

Unit 4 Collections in F#
Lesson 15 Working with collections in F#
Lesson 16 Useful collection functions
Lesson 17 Maps, dictionaries, and sets
Lesson 18 Folding your way to success
Lesson 19 Capstone 3

Unit 5 The pit of success with the F# type system
Lesson 20 Program flow in F#
Lesson 21 Modeling relationships in F#
Lesson 22 Fixing the billion-dollar mistake
Lesson 23 Business rules as code
Lesson 24 Capstone 4

Unit 6 Living on the .NET platform
Lesson 25 Consuming C# from F#
Lesson 26 Working with NuGet packages
Lesson 27 Exposing F# types and functions to C#
Lesson 28 Architecting hybrid language applications
Lesson 29 Capstone 5

Unit 7 Working with data
Lesson 30 Introducing type providers
Lesson 31 Building schemas from live data
Lesson 32 Working with SQL
Lesson 33 Creating type provider-backed APIs
Lesson 34 Using type providers in the real world
Lesson 35 Capstone 6

Unit 8 Web programming
Lesson 36 Asynchronous workflows
Lesson 37 Exposing data over HTTP
Lesson 38 Consuming HTTP data
Lesson 39 Capstone 7

Unit 9 Unit testing
Lesson 40 Unit testing in F#
Lesson 41 Property-based testing in F#
Lesson 42 Web testing
Lesson 43 Capstone 8

Unit 10 Where next?
Appendix A The F# community
Appendix B F# in my organization
Appendix C Must-visit F# resources
Appendix D Must-have F# libraries
Appendix E Other F# language features