I have the very latest version of Visual Studio 2017 installed. I selected F# language support and F# desktop support. After restarting and going to File -> New Project I was ex
And coming "soon" to an IDE near you:
“You can expect two releases from us in 2019, .NET Core 3 and .NET Framework 4.8.”
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/05/07/net-core-3-and-support-for-windows-desktop-applications/