From now on, you just have to remember to switch the dropdown list in Visual Studio's toolbar from Debug to Release when you need a new version of your setup project (and switch the list back to Debug ...

With the release of Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Microsoft has supported F# since .NET Core 1.0 was released, but tooling availability has varied in comparison to fellow .NET Core languages C# and VB.NET.

From Visual Studio, go to Debug -> Attach to process. In the Qualifier field, type the IP or the hostname of the server you want to connect to (the port should default to 4018 automatically), then ...

It's only in release mode that you'll need to rebuild your setup project. You can get Visual Studio to take care of this for you: Go to Visual Studio's Build menu and select the Configuration Manager ...