ITT 2017 - Rachel Reese - Consuming Data with F#'s Type Providers

Have you ever needed to access a data source in your application? Trick question! Are there developers who would answer no to that question? Of course not! Rachel Reese will walk you through just how quick and easy data access can be with F#'s Type Providers. She'll cover connecting to several different data sources using the relevant type providers, as well as when and how to write your own.

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1. Rachel Reese @rachelreese rachelree.se CONSUMING DATA WITH F# TYPE PROVIDERS
2. ¡  A mechanism to provide types to the compiler 2 WHAT ARE TYPE PROVIDERS?
3. Because data! 3 WHY DO WE NEED TYPE PROVIDERS?
4. 4 WHY DO WE NEED TYPE PROVIDERS? Finally consume data Create infrastructure Obtain data Set up connection Because current data consumption methods!
5. WHY DO WE NEED TYPE PROVIDERS? DATA CONSUMPTION 920 pages! 31 lines!
6. Intellisense, tooltips, & other tooling available No code gen! Always in sync No extra code Scalable to millions of types More natural with REPL Simplicity Elegance Tooling 6 WHY DO WE NEED TYPE PROVIDERS?
7. USING TYPE PROVIDERS
8. XML DEMOS!
9. 9 SOME EXISTING TYPE PROVIDERS Powershell Squirrels Freebase Choose your own adventure RSS DBML Dates COM Amazon S3 EDMX SignalR FunScript Rock, Paper, Scissors R Minesweeper Python MS Dynamics CRM SQLite World Bank Regex MVVMCross CSV JSON Don Syme XML LINQ Swagger IKVM Oracle File System SQL Server SQL Server with EF XAML Hadoop FizzBuzz WSDL OData Apiary Azure Facebook
10. GET CREATIVE. Get data from Hadoop SQL Server RSS CSV OData World Bank JSON Process with Matlab Powershell Regex R SignalR Python LINQ Visualize with F# Matlab R
11. 11 WRITING YOUR OWN TYPE PROVIDER
12. ¡ How frequently will you use the type provider? ¡ How stable is the information source’s schema? TWO QUESTIONS!
13. Developing and connecting to a homegrown type provider DEMO!
14. Rachel Reese @rachelreese rachelree.se CONSUMING DATA WITH F# TYPE PROVIDERS