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Is there an F# Windows Form Designer? I did a little bit of searching but have not been able to come up with anything.

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Hi Jonathan,

I'm new myself but I'm next to certain that there isn't a Forms Designer like the ones for C# and VB.net. You have to do it manually.

But that's all the wizards do for you. You could take the wizard-gen code from C# and port it to F# once you've got it right. Or you can interop with a C# front-end.

By on 5/25/2008 5:08 PM ()

There is no designer yet but what you can do as jdk suggested is to have a C# WinForms project which you can reference from the main F# project.

What I do usually is to do the design in C# and then keep all the "logic" (event handlers etc.) of the form in similarly named F# class on a separate project. For example, if I have a FormMain.cs class, I would also have a ForMain.fs class that contains all the logic.

By on 5/25/2008 8:03 PM ()

My idea is that I have a C# Project that will take and dynamically load DLL files and then execute them accordingly. These DLLs can be swapped out with updates or custom DLLs. I planned on using F# to create these DLLs. I suppose C# could handle this as well, but it seems a bit more complicated to have to create a C# project and then compile it as a whole, than to have a single F# file and then compile it into a DLL.

By on 5/26/2008 6:40 PM ()

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