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Set up your F# development environment

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Set up your F# development environment

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- Hello, and welcome to the series on F# where we're covering concepts to help you get started developing your own F# applications. In this video, we're covering how to set up your development environment to start writing F# code. Let's get started. In order to get started developing with F#, you'll need the .NET SDK. The .NET SDK is set of libraries and tools that allow developers to create .NET applications and libraries. To download and install the .NET SDK you're going to want to open up your browser and navigate to .NET.microsoft.com/download. .NET is free and cross platform, which means you can get a zero cost installed on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Docker. Now on this PC, I'm using Windows, so I'm going to want to select Windows. At the time of this recording the latest stable version of .NET is 5.0, so that's the one we want to install. Select download .NET SDK to download the installation files. Now keep in mind that you want to get the .NET SDK and not the .NET runtime, so…

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