In this course, get a quick—yet thorough—tour of the new features and tools available in Visual Studio 2017 and F# 4. 1. Kit Eason discusses the new value types that provide an opportunity for performance gains, the new result type which gives you access to the railway oriented programming style of error handling, and program organization and readability changes. Plus, he explores the evolution of tooling for F#, and explains how F# tooling has changed in Visual Studio 2017. To wrap up the course, he shares how you can contribute to the F# language and tooling by getting involved in the open-source community.

Topics include:
* Working with struct tuples
* Marking a record type as a struct value
* Marking a discriminated union as a struct type
* Using the fixed keyword to mark a value
* F# result type and associated functions
* Resolving potential naming clashes between modules and types
* Error message improvements
* The past and future of visual F# tooling in Visual Studio
* Reviewing F# tooling changes