Asynchronous work flows are a very powerful tool in programming. They allow your threads to do other work while you wait for results from a long running piece of work. How would you write an asynchronous work flow in C#? Logically you might consider chaining together callbacks.

new Client().Connect(settings, (c1, ex1) => {
    // prepare data to send
    c.Send(sendData1, (c2, ex2) => {
        c2.Receive((c3, dt1, ex3) => {
            // parse data and prepare response
            c3....

Visual Studio 2010 has been made available to MSDN subscribers yesterday. I downloaded Visual Studio 2010 today and installed it on Windows 7 RC. I took some images so that you can see what it looks like

Here is what the setup screen looks like, nothing fancy, it is very similar to Visual Studio 2008













Here is what it looks like if you want to customize the install. As you can see F# is now part of Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft has launched the F# Developer Center

Here you can learn everything about Microsoft’s functional programming language F# (pronounced F sharp). There are links to forums, blogs, projects on codeplex, code gallery samples, videos and much more.

Also check out the Getting Started with F# section, here you can download the latest F# CTP and three sample chapters of the Expert F# book are also available for preview