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Getting started (d-oh!)
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This might sound funny, but I am unable to compile and/or run any of the "getting started" applications. I am using VS2013.4 and installed the package from http://websharper.com/WebSharper.vsix.

When I create a project from HTML Web site, it is not a web site, just a DLL. I have no idea what to do with it.

The tutorial http://websharper.com/quick-glance requires an assembly named "IntelliFactory.WebSharper.Dom" which I do not have, and cannot find on nuget either.

If I do not copy over the code, I end up with an empty page. I do not know if this is right or wrong.

I tried following another tutorial I found somewhere, but it did not contain enough precise information so a beginner cannot follow it.

Now guys please bear with me. I am not an idiot. I even thought of myself as brighter bulb. I worked for Google. I used Visual Studio before it was called Visual Studio. I have been using F# when it was only available from Microsoft Research Web site. I maintain one of the F# community projects.

And I see pretty sensible questions asked on this forum indeed! This means that everyone else could somehow jump over this entry barrier and got actually working with Websharper. I am embarrassed, but I cannot. I could not google up anything. I could not find any book on WebSharper.

So where do you folk get this uber-esoteric knowledge on this framework, that comes with templates that do not work and tutorials that do not compile? I would just drop it on the floor, but it is mentioned as a working and good thing on many F# sites.

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I hear your frustration and sorry about that: you have been caught by the breaking WebSharper 3 API changes, that's all. WebSharper 3 is currently in alpha, and as such the documentation still reflect the stable 2.5.x releases.
You can read the first 3.0 alpha announcement here, mentioning upcoming breaking changes, and more specifically those here, here, and here.

The open's in the 2-minute example on the quick glance page should thus, under the latest WebSharper 3 alpha, look like this:

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open IntelliFactory.WebSharper
open IntelliFactory.WebSharper.JavaScript
open IntelliFactory.WebSharper.Html.Client
open IntelliFactory.WebSharper.Google.Visualization
open IntelliFactory.WebSharper.Google.Visualization.Base

Note, that as the page explains, you need the Single-Page Application template to start with, and not the HTML Application. If you are running the latter, indeed a WebSharper library dll is produced, and the HTML application is generated under bin/html. You can open index.html from there in a browser.

If you want to run the 2-minute example in CloudSharper, using the latest WebSharper 3 alpha, I created a new URL here. The link on the website, uses an earlier 3.x alpha release that does not yet contain some of the breaking changes described in the blogs above, but nevertheless should work fine.

Hope this helps.

By on 2/16/2015 1:32 PM ()

Magic! It worked! Thanks for the pointers!

By on 2/18/2015 2:20 PM ()

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