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This guide walks you through setting up ServiceStack V4 with F# without relying on templates. Starting from an empty ASP.NET project, you'll install ServiceStack, configure it properly, and build your foundation for a functional web service.
ServiceStack F# templates are now officially available on the Visual Studio Gallery, featuring four hosting options including ASP.NET and self-hosted variants with optional Razor Engine support. The templates use ServiceStack 3.71, the last MIT-licensed version, making them ideal for developers starting out or preferring stable, open-source solutions.
This post explores the journey of creating Servicestack templates with F#, covering the challenges faced when building ASP.NET applications and the solutions discovered along the way. The author shares their experience moving from console applications to web templates, highlighting a critical debugging lesson that took two weeks to resolve.
Discover how to build ASP.NET MVC5 applications using F#, moving from traditional C#/F# split projects to unified pure F# templates. This guide provides a one-to-one syntax mapping between C# and F# before transitioning to optimized functional code patterns.
A comprehensive guide to getting started with functional web development using F# and .NET. Discover pure F# web templates, frameworks like NancyFX and ServiceStack, and explore functional programming across Scala and Clojure.
A personal account of installing Windows 8 multiple times and encountering various challenges, including SSD management, driver issues, and RAID configuration problems. This guide shares practical lessons learned to help others avoid similar pitfalls during Windows 8 setup.
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 1 begins on the Kurukshetra battlefield where Arjuna, overwhelmed by the sight of his relatives in the opposing army, questions the purpose of war and victory. Krishna's response initiates one of Hinduism's most revered spiritual teachings, revealing profound wisdom about duty, righteousness, and the nature of existence.
This post emphasizes the importance of understanding your testing strategy before writing test code, drawing from practical development experience. Using mathematical functions and Visual Studio testing facilities as examples, the author explains how self-awareness in testing prevents common coding mistakes and improves code quality.