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Robert Pickering and Kit Eason, Beginning F# 4.0, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1374-2_13

13. Type Providers

Robert Pickering and Kit Eason

(1)St. Germain-En-Laye, France

In this chapter, you will learn about F# type providers. Type providers let you bridge the gap between language and data —a gap you may not even have realized existed until you give type providers a try. You’ll learn to apply type providers to CSV files, HTML sources, and SQL Server databases. You’ll learn a bit about the potential pitfalls of type providers and how to mitigate them. Finally, you’ll learn how to use a query expression to combine the results of two type providers.

What Are Type Providers?

Type providers are a feature that is more or less ...

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