title: Getting started with F# windows application, I cannot find working samples or tutorials
body: <p>I have been out of the programming game for a while and thought it would be fun to put together a simple utility application used for gathering data from multiple databases on a sql server.</p>
  
  <p>This is a pretty bare bones app I am envisioning, it would have a connection to a sql server, a place to set a query that would fill a list with named parameters, (database names, widgets, etc), and a section to enter my text with a token that would be replaced.</p>
  
  <p>Below that I would like to have a grid that updated itself while the queries were running even if they were not all finished yet.  This seemed like a neat way to get into F# for me since I was about to build an app to do this in C# so I dug in but after spending six hours on this today I am nowhere.  Is there a good site with very basic tutorials someone can recommend, and with samples that build and run out of the box?  </p>
  
  <p>Here is what I did today that did not work:
  Downloaded VS2012 Ultimate RC from MSDN.<br>
  Went to the online gallery and installed six different sample projects.
  Opened each and every one of the sample projects and hit run, not one of them actually ran.</p>
  
  <p>There is so little info out there that I can't tell if this is the expected behavior due to the samples being out of date or if my environment is somehow incorrect (even though I just installed it all from scratch today).</p>
  
  <p>If I could just find the worlds simplest app that would connect to adventure works and load a list of records in a grid I would be far ahead of where I am now, which is stuck spinning my wheels.  If this is the wrong place for this type of question I would welcome advice on where I should ask, and if this is just a dumb idea and this should never be attempted with something like F# and fsharpx I would welcome that feedback as well and would then try to figure out how to do this in C#.</p>