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 ...

This is changing with the release of Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Preview 4, as F# projects can now target .NET Core and .NET Standard.

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 ...

You can get Visual Studio to take care of this for you: Go to Visual Studio's Build menu and select the Configuration Manager choice. In the upper left hand corner of the resulting dialog, you'll see ...