I’ve been working on a few different projects over the last few months including some work outside of the .NET space. This has been good for my clients, but not so good for Elevate. Fortunately, I found some time the other day to add a new feature: a pairwise implementation for C#. In F#, the [...]
Today, I was in the process of creating a branch of Elevate to support .NET 4.0 when I came across a subtle, but breaking change in the Enumerable.Count function. The following code works in .NET 3.5, but fails in .NET 4.0 Beta 2: The Enumerable.Count method in .NET 4.0 Beta 2 fails to recognize that [...]
First of all, thanks to all of you who have taken the time to look at Elevate. We have received a lot of excellent feedback. Most of it has been positive, and all of it has been extremely helpful. We didn’t expect to get this much feedback in such a short time, so we’ve been [...]
Some of the feedback that we’ve received about Elevate has to do with Option types and how they are different or similar to Nullable types in C#. Luke Hoban does a great job of describing some of the differences here: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=470052 If you’ve played around with Option types in F# or another functional language, you [...]
The past few weeks, a few other SRT Solutions developers and I have been working on a new open source library called Elevate. We went public with the source on CodePlex this weekend, and although we’re still in the early stages of development, I already rely on many of the functional programming features of the [...]
