I'm trying to find a simple solution that isn't so much manual work to reference packages. inside a .fsx file.
LinqPad 4
lets me simply add nuget packages- no intellisense or autocompletion
- deletes package after download for certain types of packages (templatus for example)
LinqPad 5 beta
lets me add nuget packages- deletes package after download for certain types of packages (templatus for example)
- with frequent failures (intellisense and compilation)
VS2015
doesn't let you download/install packages for an fsx file (only into projects)VSCode
doesn't let you download/install nuget or paket packages for an fsx file.
So I wind up having to use .fsx in VS2015, while using linqpad to get packages downloaded (which still fails for packages like templatus where it downloads an exe not a dll). Then I have I can reference them as
#I @"..\LINQPad\NuGet.FW46\FParsec\FParsec.1.0.2\lib\net40-client\" // references AppData\local\ ... since . is %localappdata%\TEMP
- doesn't match up with the relative pathing for intellisense/autocompletion engine in VSCode so I can't remove VS from the equation.
- doesn't work outside of a machine that already has that package in that location
- wind up doing a bunch of code that doesn't span .fsx files very well and has to be worked out per package reference
I don't want to create a project. I have a ton of individual scripts that are to be individually maintained and usable by others on-demand.
Is there an IDE (or fix/extension for one of these mentioned) that will give me intellisense, autocomplete, and package management for F# .fsx files that can work easily from user to user, machine to machine?