How to make an F# project work with the object browser

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Asked 14/12, 2012 at 6:35 Answered 14/12, 2012 at 6:35

I have used the sample F# Empty WPF project and pulled in Paul Bett's ReactiveUI project via Nuget. Normally when I press (shift-f2) on an identifier in C#/VB.Net it takes me to the object browser so I can explore the interface of the object. However two problems.

Initially ReactiveUI is not even available in the Object Browser. I had to go to the soution explorer and explicity click view in object browser on each reference and then they appeared in the object browser. Perhapps this is intended for F# projects??
Second when I do have a symbol in my F# code, say an instance of ReactiveObject and do (shift-f2) I get an error cannot navigate to definition. Source code not available.

So my question is how can I solve the two above problems, the second being the most important.

Sporocyst answered 14/12, 2012 at 6:35 Comment(10)

The second issue has always been the behavior in VS2010 and VS2012 – I'd be surprised if there is a fix. – Sunderland 14/12, 2012 at 19:49

Given that the intellisense can show the correct type and XML doc it surprises me that its not a trivial fix to implement. I'll find it hard to convince the team to try f# if its hard to browse API in the browser. – Sporocyst 14/12, 2012 at 23:55

Possible duplicate: #7128631 – Althing 18/12, 2012 at 1:51

Do you really want to see the underlying objects? – Hyehyena 27/12, 2012 at 17:46

Let's say i want to browse the api from visual studio. For example I cursor over fst and press f12 it would be nice to see the doc for fst and then at a glance see all other functions associated with the list module. I think we are being pedantic here if we worry about it being called an "object" browser. Id call it a doc explorer. – Sporocyst 27/12, 2012 at 18:18

These are limitations of Visual Studio, these kind of tasks are not very common in F#. If you use MonoDevelop then a working object browser down to code is available. – Hodges 11/2, 2013 at 11:4

:) tried getting mono develop working yesterday under osx. It's broken. I have another SO question open on that issue. – Sporocyst 11/2, 2013 at 14:44

MonoDevelop is fine under OSX, are you talking about the F# binding? – Hodges 16/2, 2013 at 17:26

Yeah sorry. I meant the f# binding. – Sporocyst 16/2, 2013 at 17:31

Please raise any issues found under: github.com/fsharp/fsharpbinding/issues?state=open Im trying to get a list of those that need to be resolved. – Hodges 16/2, 2013 at 19:21

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