On Mac. VSCode.
Create a new Project in VSCode F#: New Project.
Project Created -> I need to dotnet restore in terminal to get the project into F# Project Explorer but it fails to load.
Need to change Target Framework to netcoreapp20.
Project now loads but packages are not recognised, packages won't load, project build fails.
Paket Install completes but packages cannot be loaded in .fs files

Hi, I've been using Ionide to initialize a new F# console application. I initially was not able to build it until I added the FSharp.NET.Sdk to the Sdk Attribute in the Project Tag.

As I only have my Windows Box to test around (Win 10 1703) and haven't seen any other reports of people having problems with this template I wonder if I have some sort of weird setup.

I've been using Paket versions 5.88.* as well as 5.99.1, dotnet cli versions 1.0.4 as well as 2.0.0, and the most recent Ionide version as of writing this in Visual Studio Code 1.16.1.

Thanks in advance for your response.

Hey, just got a new Mac and I decided to go through creating a new class library with Ionide/Forge and noticed a few things that could be refined at some point.

1. When creating a new class library the target framework is .Net 4.6.1 and therefore the build script don't work out of the box on Mac/Linux.
   • Possible solution 1: Target netstandard by default so that the template works out of the box on all operating systems. I can create a pull request if this is an acceptable solution.
   • Possible solution 2: Detect OS and only target full framework on Windows. If this solution is preferred then I could take a look at it if it does not require extensive knowledge of how the templateing engine works or if I could get some directions on how to add this functionality.
2. The .paket/paket.exe is ignored in the .gitignore file. This makes it so that if I create a project using the template and then check it into source control, then the build scripts will not work if I do a clean checkout of my project.
   • Possible solution: Remove the .paket/paket.exe from the .gitignore file. I can create a pull request if this is an acceptable solution.

From ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp#626

When cloning a repo that was bootstrapped in Ionide it will lack paket.exe. When trying to restore such a repo it will not find .paket\paket.exe and fail with the following error message:

[22:15:08 INFO ] MSBuild (.NET) found at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe
[22:15:08 INFO ] Dotnet cli (.NET Core) found at C:\Program Files\dotnet\dotnet.exe
[22:15:08 INFO ] Automatic msbuild detection
[22:15:13 INFO ] invoking msbuild from C:\Program Files\dotnet\dotnet.exe on "c:\Users~\Documents\Source\tmp\testpaketgit2\TestPaketGit\TestPaketGit\TestPaketGit.fsproj" for target Restore
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 15.4.8.50001 for .NET Core
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
'"c:\Users~\Documents\Source\tmp\testpaketgit2\TestPaketGit.paket\paket.exe"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

When creating a new F# Project in VSCode, Ionide bootstraps it with Fake and Paket. The current .gitignore file from gitignore.io has the following line in it: .paket/paket.exe. This results in excluding paket.exe when committing the project to a git repo like gitlab or GitHub.

Workaround:
Change it manually to !.paket/paket.exe to force the inclusion of paket.exe.