C# 3.0 and the LINQ Project

This article is partially an excerpt from my book. It introduces the benefits of functional pogramming, and explains the essential aspects of the functional style using F# and C# 3.0. Finally, it also shows how functional style influences the application architecture.

In this article, we'll implement a simple iteractve game using the Reactive LINQ project. The article shows that this way of handling events gives us amog other things a great degree of composability.

In the previous article, I introduced Reactive LINQ. Today, we're going to look at other operators that canbe used for working with events. We'll see aggregation is useful and how to dynamically change (switch) behavior.

In the second part of the series about reactive programming, I introduction the Reactive LINQ project, which allows writing event processing code in C# using LINQ queries.

The LINQ project and changes in C# 3.0 are interesting because they allow implementing many ideas from functional languages in C#. In this article I'll explain "first-class events" in F# and later I'll implemet similar concept using LINQ.

About a year ago, I wrote an article about infinite sequences on MSDN. I remembered about it this week, because these topics will be discussed in the book I'm working on as well...

Recently, I announced on my blog that I’m working on a book for Manning called Real-world Functional Programming in .NET. It is more than a month since I wrote about it, so here is a brief update...