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dharmatech
dharmatech

Reputation: 9537

No project for "F# Application" in VS Express 2012 for Web

I installed the F# Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web. When I select New Project I expected to see F# Application in the list of Visual F# templates but all I see is F# Library and F# Tutorial.

I say I expected it because I see it referenced in the book Programming F# 3.0 by Chris Smith.

Any suggestions for getting the F# Application template in the list?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 1121

Answers (2)

Shredderroy
Shredderroy

Reputation: 2920

I got F# from this link, and I installed the extensions (Tools -> Extensions and Updates) shown below:

Extensions and Updates

I can now create the following types of projects in Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web:

Project templates

Jon Harrop's videos are well worth the viewing, of course.

EDIT

The second image is scaled down and the text is illegible. The project templates under Visual F# -> Windows are:

  1. F# Library
  2. F# Library (Class Library)
  3. F# Windows App (Service)
  4. F# Windows App (WinForms)
  5. F# Windows App (WPF)
  6. F# Windows Console App
  7. F# Tutorial

Just to complete the list, here are the other project types:

Visual F# -> Silverlight

  1. F# Silverlight Library

ASPNET

  1. F# and C# Web Application (ASP.NET MVC 4)

Service

  1. F# and C# Web Service (ASP.NET, WSDL)

Upvotes: 6

Phillip Trelford
Phillip Trelford

Reputation: 6543

There is no F# Application template in the VS Express 2012 Web edition but you should be able to create one easily by adding an F# library project and then going to the project properties and specifying the output type as Console Application in the Application tab.

The following short video from Jon Harrop shows how to create a Windows application: WPF desktop GUI app development in F# with VS Express 2012 for Web

The process is the same for a console application.

Upvotes: 10

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