Presentation: Dialing Up with F# and Windows Phone 7

A big thanks to Onorio for having me speak for the MIGang FSharp Special Interest Group tonight.

The slides that accompanied this presentation are shown below (use the mouse or the left and right arrow keys to navigate the slides):



Additionally, these slides and the associated examples can be found on my GitHub at https://github.com/dmohl/DialingUpWithFSharpAndWP7_Presentation.

Version 1.3.0.1 of the F# and C# Win Phone App (Silverlight) Project Template Released

Version 1.3.0.1 of the basic WP7 project template has been released. The core feature of this release is a new item template that allows you to add a F# Source File in WP7 projects. Prior to this release, attempting to add a new item through the standard process resulted only in options targeting C#.

To take advantage of this new feature, do the following:

1. Install the 1.3.0.1 version of the project template (see this blog post for more information).
2. Right click on the F# project and select Add -> New Item...
3. The resulting window will now include a F# Source File item as shown below:

Version 1.1 of the F# Windows Phone 7 Templates

The two F# Windows Phone 7 templates (F# and C# Win Phone App (Silverlight) and F# and C# Win Phone List App(Silverlight)) have been updated to support Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW.

F# Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight) Templates Now On Visual Studio Gallery

Over the last few days, I've been working to put together a few Visual Studio 2010 Online Templates to help kick start development of Windows Phone 7 (WP7) applications in F#. These templates are now available on Visual Studio Gallery.

Follow these steps to get started:
(Note: Visual Studio 2010 Professional (or above) is required to use these templates.)

1. Download and install the Windows Phone Developer Tools.

2. In Visual Studio 2010, navigate to File -> New and select Online Templates.

3. Search for "Daniel Mohl" or "F# and C# Win Phone" (a sample is below):

Note: The WP7 FSharp.Core.dll has been included as part of these templates. It is also part of the Microsoft F# August 2010 CTP.

As always, I'd love to hear your feedback on these templates as well as ideas for others that you would like to see.