How to make Monodevelop and F# work

Question

I have VS 2010 + NET 4 on my pc. I downloaded F# bindings for Monodevelop and Monodevelop 2.8.6.4 for Windows.

https://github.com/fsharp/fsharpbinding

http://monodevelop.com/Download

I ran install.bat which copied FSharpBinding.dll and FSharpBinding.Gui.dll to c:\Program Files (x86)\MonoDevelop\AddIns\BackendBindings\.

I opened new Solution in Monodevelop but there is no F# solution there. Do you know what is the next step I should do to make F# work with Monodevelop? I also checked add-in manager but I did not see any F# bindings installed there.

Answer 1

As far as I remember, the official fsharpbinding doesn't work with Mono 2.8 onwards. This is a fork which seems to work with new Mono versions.

However, you didn't mention you have installed Mono or not. If you do so, make sure that you install Mono 10.x since they include F# compiler in their installation already.

If Monodevelop recognizes fsharpbinding correctly, you will see F# solution in the list of solutions and F# binding installed in add-in manager.