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Lesson 34. Using type providers in the real world

This is the final lesson on type providers. So far, you’ve looked at various providers in the data space. You understand how and where to use them, what their strengths are, and when and where you might not use them. In this lesson, you’ll wrap up by working specifically with type providers in a real-world development process. You’ll learn about

• Working with configuration files
• Manually redirecting type providers
• Using type providers in a continuous integration (CI) environment

34.1. Securely accessing connection strings with type providers

You’ve already looked at how to point to live data sources in a type provider, by redirecting from a static data source to a remote one at runtime. Sometimes ...