Real-World Functional Programming with Examples in F# and C#

Chapter 4. Exploring F# and .NET libraries by example

This chapter covers

• Working with common .NET and F# libraries
• Implementing our first real-world application in F#
• Developing code using F# Interactive
• Loading data from file and drawing charts

Even though we’ve looked at only the most basic F# language features so far, you should already know enough to write a simple application. In this chapter we won’t introduce any new functional language constructs; instead we’ll look at practical aspects of developing .NET applications in F#. You probably know how to write a similar application in C#, so all code in this chapter will be in F#.

As we write our first real-world application in F#, we’ll explore several functions from the F# library ...