Chapter 5. Write Your Own Type Provider
There are four built-in type providers in F# 3.0. If you’ve wondered how to make a type provider that can be used to interpret data—such as the data in a database, in the cloud, or in an XML file—this chapter will show you how to do it.
What Is a Type Provider?
As I mentioned at the beginning of Chapter 4, the type provider is an adapter component that reads the underlying information schema and converts it to types in .NET. The information can be from data stores, services, or any other source of structured data. The type-generation process is known as the provided type. The type generated from a type provider can be picked up by Microsoft IntelliSense. In addition to the class type and members, the type ...
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