F# is now included in visual
studio 2010, by default. So If you are using visual studio 2010 on your computer
you may already have F# installed. But if you are using Visual studio 2008
rather than 2010, you will have to download the F# distribution separately.
Installing F# on windows with visual studio 2008 is straight forward.what you
need for this just follow the steps.
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You need to be running an
account with system Administration privileges, Then Download MSI Version and
Execute it.
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You can download MSI
version from the Link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/fsharp/ given link to the compiler
distribution is included in the Top left hand corner. There are Two
versions- An MSI version which will automatically install F# visual studio
integration if visual studio is installed, and a ZIP version of the
distribution, which is firstly targeted at Non-Windows users. The package
includes the compilers fsc.exe as well as fsi.exe, F# base class libraries,
F# documentation, F# parsing Tools and F# examples.
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At the Time Of this writing
the free express edition of visual studio do not support plugins so you can
not use F# with them.
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You can install F# plugins
on top of the free visual studio 2008 shell. You can get details for Visual
studio 2008 shell at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vsx2008/.
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