F# and SilverlightTalbott Crowell

F# User Group, April 5, 2010http://fsug.org

Quick Intro to F#

Calculating Moving Average in F#

Quick Intro to Silverlight

Visualizing F# Using Silverlight Toolkit

Agenda

Quick Intro to F#

Functional language developed by Microsoft Research 2002 language design started by Don Syme

2005 F# 1.0.1 public release (integration w/ VS2003)

2010 F# is “productized” and baked into VS2010

Multi-paradigm Functional/Imperative/OO/Language Oriented

Key characteristics Succinct, Type Inference (strongly typed), 1st class

functions

What is F#

Type inferencing

Strong typed

Functions as values

F# Intro

let a = 5

let b = 6.0

let c = “7 feet”

let d x = x * x

let e = d b

b is a float

d is a function

What data type is e?

The |> Combinator “Pipe Forward”

Example

F# Combinators

x |> f is the same as f x

let sqr x = x * x sqr 5 5 |> sqr

Moving Average in F#

Start with a list of numbers

Moving Average step 1

let testdata = [1.0 .. 10.0]

testdata is a list of floats

Create windows of the series

Moving Average step 2

Seq.windowed 4 testdata

it is a sequence of float arrays

Average the values in each array

Moving Average step 3

Array.average [|1.0; 2.0; 3.0; 4.0|]

Use Seq.map to calculate average of all arrays in the sequence

Moving Average step 4

let windowedData = Seq.windowed period data

Seq.map Array.average windowedData

the first argument is the function to apply to each item in the sequence

the second argument is the sequence

Use the pipe forward operator to put it together and omit the let

Moving Average step 5

Seq.windowed period data |> Seq.map Array.average

Put our algorithm into a function and test it

Moving Average function

let MovingAverage period data = Seq.windowed period data |> Seq.map Array.average

let testdata = [1.0 .. 10.0]let test = MovingAverage 4 testdata

Let’s generate some random data

open System

let GenerateData offset variance count = let rnd = new Random() let randomDouble variance = rnd.NextDouble() * variance let indexes = Seq.ofList [0..(count-1)] let genValue i = let value = float i + offset + randomDouble variance value Seq.map genValue indexes

let dataGenerator = GenerateData 50.0 100.0 200

Putting it together

let data1 = List.ofSeq dataGenerator

let data2 = List.ofSeq <| MovingAverage 10 data1

Time to visualize…

Quick Intro to Silverlight

What is Silverlight? Microsoft RIA plug-in for browsers

2007 Version 1.0 JavaScript based

2008 Version 2.0 .NET based

2009 Version 3.0 more controls, out of browser support (offline)

2010 Version 4.0 printing, COM, Multi-touch

Runs on multiple browsers/OS IE, Safari, Firefox, Chrome / Win, MacOS, Linux*

• via Mono Moonlight implementation

• WPF/E (original name)

VS 2008 Microsoft Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008

SP1

VS 2010 Built in support for Silverlight 3

Current RC requires “Silverlight 4 Tools for VS 2010”

http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4/ RTM expected to include Silverlight 3 and 4 tools

built in

Visual Studio Integration

Visual Studio 2008 Using Luke Hoban’s F#

Silverlight templates

Visual Studio 2010 RC Built-in

F# Support for Silverlight in VS

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/fsharpsilverlight

Silverlight Toolkit http://silverlight.codeplex.com/

Silverlight SDK Silverlight 3 SDK

Silverlight 4 SDK Beta

Graphing Controls

Visualizing F# using Silverlight Toolkit

Use the “Silverlight Application” template in Visual Studio Creates Silverlight Application (produces XAP)

Creates Web Application (hosts web site and XAP)

Create a Silverlight Application

Initial UserControl

Notice XML Namespaces (need to add more)

XAML

Add References

Add namespaces to XAML to support Silverlight Toolkit

xmlns:controls="clr-namespace: System.Windows.Controls; assembly=System.Windows.Controls"

xmlns:controlsToolkit="clr-namespace: System.Windows.Controls; assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Toolkit"

xmlns:chartingToolkit="clr-namespace: System.Windows.Controls.DataVisualization.Charting; assembly=System.Windows.Controls.DataVisualization.Toolkit"

xmlns:chartingPrimitivesToolkit="clr-namespace: System.Windows.Controls.DataVisualization.Charting.Primitives; assembly=System.Windows.Controls.DataVisualization.Toolkit"

Sample Series comes from Static Resource.

Define Static Resource in App.xaml

Add a chart to MainPage.xaml

add namespace

add sample dataset

Static Resource App.xaml

Similar to a Class Library project except it compiles with special options to target the Silverlight CLR

Use file links to share F# files between Class Library and Silverlight Library Add Existing File

Choose “Add As Link” from dropdown

Create an F# Silverlight Library

SeriesDataPoint is a class (type) that has two members, Index and Value

Used for series data

Add Chart Helper

type SeriesDataPoint(index, value) = member this.Index with get() = index member this.Value with get() = value

Used by XAML Designer to bind at design time

Add Sample Data Set

type SampleDataSet() = static member SampleSeries1 = let data = new ObjectCollection() data.Add(new SeriesDataPoint(0, 124.1)) data.Add(new SeriesDataPoint(1, 124.3)) data.Add(new SeriesDataPoint(2, 125.7)) data.Add(new SeriesDataPoint(3, 115.4)) data.Add(new SeriesDataPoint(4, 115.9)) data.Add(new SeriesDataPoint(5, 125.0)) data.Add(new SeriesDataPoint(6, 133.6)) data.Add(new SeriesDataPoint(7, 131.9)) data.Add(new SeriesDataPoint(8, 127.3)) data.Add(new SeriesDataPoint(9, 137.3)) data

Designer is now binding with F#

Code behind for MainPage.xaml

Use constructor to wire up events

Add code behind for MainPage

public partial class MainPage : UserControl{ public MainPage() { InitializeComponent(); SilverlightEvents.RegisterHandlers(this.LayoutRoot); }}

Event handling code for application in F#

SilverlightEvents in F#

Sample Button Click Event

buttonGenerateSampleData.Click.Add(fun(_) -> let data = GenerateDataPoints 125.0 10.0 10 let series = DataConverter.ConvertDataPointsToLineSeries "Sample Series 3" data chart.Series.Add(series) )

Slider Events - Mouse

member internal this.UpdateSeries() = m_range <- (int slider.Value) let movingAverage = MovingAverage m_range m_data let newSeries = this.GetMovingAverageSeries movingAverage chart.Series.[1] <- newSeries ()

slider.MouseLeftButtonUp.Add(fun(_) -> model.UpdateSeries())

Slider Events – Value Changed

slider.ValueChanged.Add(fun(callback) -> model.UpdateMovingAverage(callback))

member this.UpdateMovingAverage(args:RoutedPropertyChangedEventArgs<float>) = let oldVal = int args.OldValue let newVal = int args.NewValue if oldVal = newVal then () elif (Math.Abs(oldVal - newVal) > 4) then m_range <- newVal this.UpdateSeries() () else m_range <- newVal ()

Generate Data and Moving Average

Getting Started http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4/

Tim Heuer’s Blog http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/03/15/what

s-new-in-silverlight-4-rc-mix10.aspx

Silverlight 4 and Visual Studio 2010 RC

Bart Czernicki’s Silverlight Hack Blog http://www.silverlighthack.com/post/2009/11/04/S

ilverlight-3-and-FSharp-Support-in-Visual-Studio-2010.aspx

Luke Hoban’s WebLog http://blogs.msdn.com/lukeh/archive/2009/06/26/f

-in-silverlight.aspx

support for F# in VS 2008 http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/fsharpsilverlight

F# and Silverlight 2.0 http://jyliao.blogspot.com/2008/11/f-and-silverligh

t-20.html

Other Helpful Links

Thank you. Questions?F# and Silverlight

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