Over the last couple years, there has been an explosion of interest in Silverlight.  As a .NET-based runtime, it is possible to compile Silverlight applications with any .NET language, and we’ve seen a lot of F# developers using F# in Silverlight.  However, until recently this involved building an application using the desktop version of the F# runtime, which could result in some pitfalls and mixed levels of success.

With the recent F# May CTP though, we now provide a Silverlight version of the F# runtime, FSharp.Core.dll, along with the F# release.  This enables building truly first-class Silverlight components using F#.

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