Ca n't Find Visual F# in Visual Studio.

[Steve Burrus]

I can't for the life of me find a way to create either a Visual F# file or a project in my Visual Studio 2013 for the Desktop! I would really appreciate someone's help with this.

  

[Alexandre Konioukhov]

VS 2005

[Alexandre Konioukhov]

sorry, use VS 2015

[Tomas Jansson]

Did you install f# language support when you installed VS? Not sure if it is default or not.

[Alexandre Konioukhov]

I think it includes F# by default, but better choose custom installation to check

On Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 10:54:45 PM UTC-4, Steve Burrus wrote:

[Steve R Burrus]

Alexandre mauybe I shouldn't have done this bu t I got rid of VS 2013 for Win. Desktop and now just about got thru installing VS 2013 Professional. So what 's the easy to access F# in Professional?

  

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[Alex]

why you're installing VS 2013, but not 2015?

VS 2015 Community is free and includes F#

and you can work with the same projects, created in VS 2013

[Isaac Abraham]

Pretty sure it was only in VS2015 that it wasn't on by default. But yes, I would install the Visual F# 3.1 Tools (followed immediately after by F# Power Tools, of course!).

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I think it includes F# by default, but better choose custom installation to check

On Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 10:54:45 PM UTC-4, Steve Burrus wrote:

I can't for the life of me find a way to create either a Visual F# file or a project in my Visual Studio 2013 for the Desktop! I would really appreciate someone's help with this.

  

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[Steve R Burrus]

Alex I DID have VS 2015 the pother d ay but that's when I first noticed that I couldn't access Visual F#. I read that in the File menu I could start a F# file but I never saw the Scripts folder to do that with.  

[Alex]

which Script folder? In VS you can create F# source file and F# script file or create F# project and add these files there

[Kevin Ransom]

F# is not enabled by default in VS 2015, to enable it during setup ensure that F# is selected in in the programming language section.

If you have already installed VS,

Either:

•     Go to File/New Project and select the F# section and click on Install F# in the banner.

Or:

• Open an existing F# project the you have and VS will prompt you to install F#.

Kevin

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[Isaac Abraham]

This is precisely why we need better help within VS to fix this, as well as the ability to install F# on demand when opening a raw .fsx file (not just a project).

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[Steve R Burrus]

it's all good now everuyone.  I man aged to work with Visual F# in VS 2013 Professional, although I wish that I knew a LOT more about F# than I do!

  

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[Warren Young]

On Jun 4, 2016, at 8:54 PM, Steve Burrus <steveb...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I can't for the life of me find a way to create either a Visual F# file or a project in my Visual Studio 2013 for the Desktop!

I’m late to this party, but I didn’t see anyone mention the actual problem here, which is that Visual Studio Express 2013 was artificially broken up into multiple “editions,” which individually do less than past all-in-one Express editions.

Now, you’d think that the “Desktop” edition could make desktop programs in any Visual Studio supported language, but you’d be wrong. In 2013, F# was only available in the Web edition! Bizarre.

Microsoft fixed this problem by returning to an all-in-one system with Visual Studio Community 2015.

[Steve R Burrus]

Well I have now reached my ultimate goal of successfully getting back VS Community 2015 AND being a ble to  create a Visual F# project! Now if someone could please  teach me a LOT more about F# than I know now I would appreciate it.

     

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[Warren Young]

On Jun 6, 2016, at 2:57 PM, Steve R Burrus <steveb...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Now if someone could please teach me a LOT more about F# than I know now I would appreciate it.

http://fsharp.org/learn.html

[Reed Copsey, Jr.]

I'd also recommend joining FSSF (http://foundation.fsharp.org/join) and asking questions on the Slack team - http://fsharp.org/guides/slack/  Good way to get real-time answers to your questions.

[Thomas Clarke]

Hi Steve,

Welcome to F#. I've been spending the last few months starting to put together a module on F# for students at Imperial College (EEE students in fact). So I know quite a bit about what introductory material is out there. I'd add to what has been already said:

(1) the new MSDN F# portal is a good source of documentation, and will google nicely so "fsharp tuples" has first hit the relevant page.

(2) fsharpforfunandprofit is a great source of introductory pages on pretty well everything. And is usually google second hit.

(3) The F# cheat sheet is not so well publicised but very useful, and has a beautiful PDF version:

https://dungpa.github.io/fsharp-cheatsheet/

There are also lots of tutorials etc linked from the fsharp web site.

Best wishes, Tom