F# Powerpack Documentation

Question

I was wondering if someone can inform me of any decent documentation of F# Powerpack library. Thanks in advance.

Amir

Answer 1

As I know F# powerpack does not have official documentation. It had one before for F# version 1.9.6.x(something like that) hosted at Microsoft research(Not MSDN).

You can learn the usage of it from blog posts and books:

The home page of powerpack has a few examples.

The Expert F# 2.0 by Don Syme et. al actually has covered a lot of stuff in the PowerPack. E.g. matrix and vector in Chapter 10, some async library for web/network in Chapter 13, lexing and parsing in Chapter 16, and the theory behind the F# Linq in Chapter 9.

There should also be a lot of blog posts for F# PowerPack.

If you need to have a sense of what's really available, you'd like to go to the source code, especially the .fsi files containing the function prototypes.

Answer 2

I'm afraid that there is no comprehensive documentation for F# PowerPack at the moment. The project homepage contains some very basic information with a few links, but you'll probably have to rely on your favorite search engine and blogs.

What particular part of PowerPack are you interested in?

Aside, I have a few (almost ready) articles about numerical functionality in PowerPack, so if that's what you're looking for, I can send you a draft (before I finally get to publish them).