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#Visual F# Tools

###Contributing to the F# Language, Library, and Tools

You are invited to join with the F# Community and the Visual F# Tools team to help produce future releases of the F# language compiler, library, and tools.

F# is a mature, open source, cross-platform, functional-first programming language which empowers users and organizations to tackle complex computing problems with simple, maintainable, and robust code. F# is used in a wide range of application areas and is supported by Microsoft and other industry-leading companies providing professional tools, and by an active open community. You can find out more about F# at http://fsharp.org.

Changes contributed here are packaged into the Visual F# Tools, the F# Open Edition, and other open source F# editing tools. Microsoft coordinates packaging this repository as part of the Visual F# Tools, while the F# community coordinates packaging it as the Open Edition of F# for use on Linux, OSX, Android, iOS, and other platforms, via the [fsharp/fsharp GitHub repo](https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp/).

###Engineering status

[F# 4.0 status](https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/wiki/F%23-4.0-Status)

###License

This project is subject to the Apache Licence, Version 2.0. A copy of the license can be found in [License.txt](License.txt) at the root of this repo.

###Development and Testing

See [DEVGUIDE.md](DEVGUIDE.md) and [TESTGUIDE.md](TESTGUIDE.md) in the root of the repo for details on build, development, and testing. A list of required frameworks and development tools can be found [here](https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/wiki/Required-Software).

Quickstart guides for build and test can be found [here](https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/wiki/Build-Quickstart) and [here](https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/wiki/Test-Quickstart), respectively.

###Contributing

Guidelines for contributions to the Visual F# compiler, library, and tools can be found [here](CONTRIBUTING.md).

If you would like to contribute to the F# ecosystem more generally, please see the F# Software Foundation's [Community Projects](http://fsharp.org/community/projects/) pages.

###Code Flow to Other Platforms

Currently, this repository only enables development and testing on the Windows platform. If you are using Linux, OSX, Android, or iOS, and would like to contribute, please see the instructions provided at the [Open Edition repo](https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp/#the-open-edition-of-the-f-compiler-core-library--tools).

Although the primary focus of this repo is F# for Windows and the Visual Studio F# tools, contributions here flow directly to the F# Open Edition repo.  More details can be found [here](https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/wiki/Code-Flow-to-Open-Edition).

###Get In Touch

Keep up with the Visual F# Team and the development of the Visual F# Tools by following us [@VisualFSharp](https://twitter.com/VisualFSharp) or subscribing to our [team blog](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/fsharpteam/).