I encountered a ton of difficulties while porting code from C# to F#. Fortunately / unfortunately, so have many other people. Thankfully they took the time to write about these problems so my solutions were often only a quick search away. Here is a collection of some of the finds that were able to help me in my endeavors.
I have done my best to attribute sources, and as always feedback is very much appreciated. Also, I will be updating my code viewer as soon as possible to stop it from embedding html smiley faces.
*Update: Custom WPF Controls in F# is now available on Codeplex at http://wpffsharp.codeplex.com. You can still download the source from my site here. (Works best withVSTS2010 Beta1)
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It is a translation of SAMS WPF Control Development Unleashed: Building Advanced User Interfaces written by Pavan Podila, and Kevin Hoffman to F#. I picked this book for translation as it covers many advanced topics that other books shy away from. I have been a reader of Pavan Podila’s blog Pixel in Gene for some time, and I have also been waiting for a book dedicated advanced UIs, so when I heard that he was coming out with such a book I knew it was going to be exactly what I needed.
WPF Control Development
The aim behind this project is to serve as an extensive collection non trivial examples of WPF/F# UI. As I introduce people to F#, one thing I am constantly asked is; can it do GUI. Now I can say yes, … well sort of. So far I have only translated 3,500 lines of F# code, and I am still not finished.
I’m doing this primarily as a learning experience and as a forcing function. I have already learned a lot about WPF and F#, and I plan on continuously improving the code as I learn more. Other contributions to the project would be very welcome, and if you spot mistakes or know of any better implementations please don’t hesitate to let me know.
I hope that you find this code to be useful to your WPF and F# projects , and happy coding.
This is an experiment in interactive user generated network graph layout. The video demonstrates the ability to specify a domain meta-model (class diagram) and then specify a model in the domain. The layout engine is force directed with a modified gradient decent algorithm for convergence.
This is essentially a 3D browser for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Work Items. Each of the cubes represents a Work Item, and each of the lines represents a Work Item Link.
Ultimately what I intend on building is a fully fledged time tracking software powered by SQL Reporting. Unfortunately that will take quite a bit of time to build, and given that some the tools I want to use for it are not out yet, I decided to build it in stages. The first stage is a simple WPF application which stores the data in a file. I’m using this to start tracking my time now so that when I do build the proper version I will have some realistic data to feed it.
