Developing with WebSharper in Visual Studio currently requires:
- Visual Studio 2015 or later with Web Developer Tools installed. Also Visual F# Tools is needed to use WebSharper for F#.
When your environment is ready, download and install the
WebSharper .vsix file for one or both languages from the WebSharper download page.
These will install the WebSharper project templates into Visual Studio
(you may have to restart Visual Studio if you have it running while
you install WebSharper), making it easy to get started with new projects.
Once you installed WebSharper and, if needed, restarted Visual Studio, you should see the main WebSharper templates in the New Project dialog.
When you create a new WebSharper project from a Visual Studio template, it will use the version of WebSharper that came bundled with the Visual Studio installer you used.
WebSharper extensions, as well as the core WebSharper binaries, are distributed via Nuget. This means that you can upgrade WebSharper in or add WebSharper extensions to your existing Visual Studio projects by using the NuGet package manager, as you would with any other Nuget package.
WebSharper 4 beta related NuGet packages were named Zafir.* but are changed to WebSharper.* with the public
release.
To have C# compiler support, also install WebSharper.CSharp.
To have F# compiler support, also install WebSharper.FSharp.
Run the script runngen.ps1 in PowerShell with administrator permissions to call ngen.exe on the compiler.
It can be found in the tools folder of both WebSharper.CSharp and WebSharper.FSharp packages.
This creates a cached native image that can speedup compiler tool running time.