Unfortunately when creating Live Search, the live team did not use a term which could easily be converted to a verb (i.e. google and google-ing). The term “live searching” doesn’t really flow well in a hallway conversation nearly as well as google-ing.

Beth Massi dropped by my office a couple of months ago and we did a channel 9 video on the PInvoke Interop Assistant. Mainly an overview of the product and a bit of a tutorial. Check out the video here.

Problem #2 came quite a bit faster. The yield syntax in F# is very similar to the C# iterator syntax and made translating this sample a breeze.

One of the lacking’s of the latest F# CTP is debugger visualization support for the built-in list types. Viewing a list in the debugger is decidedly tedious compared to the mscorlib collection classes. Take the following quick code sample

Occasionally the debate will come as to when it’s OK to use type inference in order to declare a variable. There appear to be three groups in this debate.