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Is there any way to work with F# on Visual Studio 2010 Expression Edition. I am having Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition Beta 2.

+9  A: 

Unfortunately, there are no plans to include an F# Express edition for Visual Studio 2010. The express editions for 2010 are:

  • Visual Basic 2010 Express
  • Visual Web Developer 2010 Express
  • Visual C# 2010 Express
  • Visual C++ 2010 Express

Source of above.

Nifle
Also see this: http://talbottc.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A6E0DA836D488CA6!485.entry
Richard
@Richard - Thanks. Much better reference as it also mentioned the future
Nifle
+7  A: 

There won't be Visual F# Express but you can use the free Visual Studio Shell (wich is available for 2008 and 2010) with F#. It works perfectly for 2008 but I have not tested it with 2010.

More details: http://cs.hubfs.net/forums/thread/4387.aspx

UPDATE

The latest release of F# now works with the 2010 Integrated shell as well, see

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2010/08/17/announcing-the-f-2-0-free-tools-for-net-4-0.aspx

Stilgar