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I have installed FSharp-1.9.6.0. In Visual Studio 2008, I can open the F# Interactive window from View->Other Windows, and I can send text from the text editor to the interactive window from the right-click menu. But I cannot do the same thing using Alt+Enter, which (it was my understanding) was the keyboard shortcut for that action. I tried looking in the VS keyboard options to find what it was mapped to, but I can't find the action listed. I have also noticed that F# Interactive is not in the list of VS Add-Ins, but I thought it was supposed to be. Can someone help me clear this up?

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(You may want to upgrade to 1.9.6.2, the CTP update

[link:blogs.msdn.com]

though I don't think this is a related issue.)

Alt-Enter should work, in my Tools\Options\Environment\Keyboard is shows Alt-Enter bound to EditorContextMenus.CodeWindow.SendToF#Interactive, so perhaps you can add this keybinding yourself.

F# Interactive is no longer an 'add in', it is now part of the F# package install instead (more integrated).

By on 11/14/2008 12:49 PM ()

It appears that in v1.9.7.8 of F#, the command to bind Alt-Enter to is now called EditorContextMenus.CodeWindow.SendToInteractive. Notice that the 'F#' is dropped from the command name, I suppose to make it more generic for other REPL-enabled languages in the future. C# already has a REPL in Mono and will have one in DEV11 (what comes after Visual Studio 10 and .NET 4.0) I suppose when the Compiler-As-A-Service features are available.

I use R# too and I like the QuickFix feature. I fixed my key mappings to make Ctrl-Alt-Enter bound to ReSharper_QuickFix in the text scope and Alt-Enter bound to EditorContextMenus.CodeWindow.SendToInteractive also in the text scope. Works like a charm.

By on 2/7/2010 4:18 PM ()

Thanks a lot it works , been struggling for a while after ReSharper tired to be smart. :)

By on 6/15/2010 3:18 AM ()

It turns out that Alt+Enter was bound to an inactive Resharper command "Quick Fix". I guess since the shortcut was already bound when F# was installed, it didn't rebind it. While I understand that being the default behavior, it would be nice if there were some way for me to know when a collision like that occurs, so that I don't have to go digging to find out why things aren't working correctly.

Since I am not actively using Resharper, I uninstalled it and reinstalled F#, and the shortcut now works correctly.

By on 11/14/2008 2:10 PM ()

Had the same problem - but I don't want to miss all the cool Resharper features (I hope we will see a version supporting F# in the future ;) ). Not finding any usefull shortcut left (of course) I stick with the contextmenue for the future which is no big deal because I only use F#-Interactive for testing my code at the moment.

By on 4/7/2009 9:25 PM ()

Me i've assigned ctrl-shift-enter instead for resharper quickfix but i might do the opposite, having f# send to interactive as ctrl-shift-enter.

anybody know the shortcut to return to the text editor. I've assigned ctrl-# as a switch to the f# interactive window but i would like to be able to come back in the text editor without having to use the mouse

By on 4/9/2009 8:12 PM ()

The fix to that is to select Text editor and override the quickfix binding with the sendtoF# one (dont do it in global because it will not override the resharper binding)

By on 4/6/2009 10:26 PM ()

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