F# XAML Item Templates Now on Visual Studio Gallery

A new VS2010 extension is now available on Visual Studio Gallery that provides several XAML related item templates for F# projects. The provided item templates include Window for WPF as well as Page, UserControl, and ResourceDictionary for Silverlight and WPF.

To get started, do the following:

1. Download and install the extension from http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/06c6ece1-2084-4083-a0f7-934fce9d22fb or through the Extention Manager in Visual Studio 2010 as shown below (Extension Manager can be found under Tools -> Extension Manager..):

2. Once installed, you will see the following option available in the Add New Item wizard for F# Silverlight projects:

3. For F# WPF projects, the Add New Item wizard will look like the following:

These item templates complement the existing F# WPF and Silverlight project templates quite well. Here is a list of a few of these project templates that are currently available on Visual Studio Gallery:

Silverlight:

F# Client-Side Application (Silverlight)

F# Empty Web Application (Silverlight)

F# Silverlight Application

F# Web Application (Silverlight)

WPF:

F# App Template with Theme
F# Windows App (WPF, MVVM)
F# WPF Application

As usual you can find the source on my github (https://github.com/dmohl/FsXAMLItemTemplate).

Version 1.3.0.1 of the F# and C# Win Phone App (Silverlight) Project Template Released

Version 1.3.0.1 of the basic WP7 project template has been released. The core feature of this release is a new item template that allows you to add a F# Source File in WP7 projects. Prior to this release, attempting to add a new item through the standard process resulted only in options targeting C#.

To take advantage of this new feature, do the following:

1. Install the 1.3.0.1 version of the project template (see this blog post for more information).
2. Right click on the F# project and select Add -> New Item...
3. The resulting window will now include a F# Source File item as shown below:

FsUnit.MvcSample Now On NuGet Gallery

A new NuGet package is now available on the NuGet Gallery that makes it very easy to get started using FsUnit to test your ASP.NET MVC apps. The packageId is FsUnit.MvcSample and it can be found at http://nuget.org/List/Packages/FsUnit.MvcSample. For more information on FsUnit and the previously provided FsUnit NuGet package, check out http://bloggemdano.blogspot.com/2011/02/fsunit-now-on-nuget-gallery.html.

As usual, you can find everything used to create this package on my github (https://github.com/dmohl/FsUnit.MvcSample.NuGet).