What you need for this book
We need to ensure that we have met all of the software and hardware requirements and that we have their correct versions as well.
Basic requirements and setup environments
The following are the requirement specifications for an F# environment:
- Visual Studio 2015 Update 3. The minimum edition is Community Edition because it is the free minimum version of Visual Studio, which has extensibility support and Visual F# (also F# project templates) as part of the installation. Express Edition is not recommended because it has no F# project templates built in.
- .NET 4.6 as the minimum target runtime.
- Windows 7 SP1 (Windows 8.1 Update 1 64-bit or Windows 10 64-bit is recommended)
The following are the Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 hardware ...