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Sneak peeks into the F# project system, part two

Posted by Brian on July 26, 2008

One commonly requested feature that’s missing from the research releases of F# is the "Add Reference" dialog. 

The upcoming CTP release will support the ‘Add Reference’ dialog:

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which makes it easy to select the assemblies you’re looking for:

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The other main feature here is project-to-project references.  This makes it easy to create a Visual Studio solution containing code from multiple languages.  So, for example, if you have a C# library as another project:

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and you want to reference it from your F# code, you can just add a reference:

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to the project:

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and you’re good to go:

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so you can reference the code in the library:

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2 Responses to “Sneak peeks into the F# project system, part two”

  1. Unknown said

    October 30, 2009 at 2:07 pm

    Hello Brian,I noticed in VS2010 Beta 2 that the Add Reference dialog doesn\’t have a Recent tab as it does for other languages. Is this by design? It\’s a useful feature and it would be cool to have it back…

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  2. Brian said

    October 31, 2009 at 5:05 pm

    Yes, this feature can be useful. Unfortunately it will not make it into the VS2010 release. Hopefully a future release will have it.

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