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Reactive Programming for .NET Developers

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Reactive Programming for .NET Developers

Overview of this book

Reactive programming is an innovative programming paradigm focused on time-based problem solving. It makes your programs better-performing, easier to scale, and more reliable. Want to create fast-running applications to handle complex logics and huge datasets for financial and big-data challenges? Then you have picked up the right book! Starting with the principles of reactive programming and unveiling the power of the pull-programming world, this book is your one-stop solution to get a deep practical understanding of reactive programming techniques. You will gradually learn all about reactive extensions, programming, testing, and debugging observable sequence, and integrating events from CLR data-at-rest or events. Finally, you will dive into advanced techniques such as manipulating time in data-flow, customizing operators and providers, and exploring functional reactive programming. By the end of the book, you'll know how to apply reactive programming to solve complex problems and build efficient programs with reactive user interfaces.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Reactive Programming for .NET Developers
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Preface

Chapter 8. F# and Functional Reactive Programming

F# (pronounced as F sharp) is an open source programming multiparadigm language introduced for the first time by Microsoft in Visual Studio 2010. F# is a first class member of the .NET Framework languages and derives from the ML family of functional languages. F# supports the functional paradigm in addition to the traditional object-oriented and imperative paradigm of the Microsoft .NET Framework. Microsoft Visual F# is the real language implementation of Visual Studio. In the previous chapters, we have already seen some examples of functional programming (the Functional programming section of Chapter 1, First Steps Toward Reactive Programming ) written in C# using Reactive Programming concepts.

In the next two chapters, we will extend the information combining F# and Rx to introduce and understand Functional Reactive Programming (FRP).

In particular, in this chapter, we will see the following topics:

  • The F# language and its syntax as an introduction...