.NET Core 2.0 By Example

Providers

F# supports different types of provider, such as:

• HtmlProvider<>
• JsonProvider<>
• XmlProvider<>
• WorldBankDataProvider<>
• CsvProvider<>

Let's discuss one of them, for example, the CSV type provider. The FSharp.Data NuGet package contains CsvProvider. We can pass a .csv file and can read other .csv files; for example, we created a .csv file as follows:

Now, we have another .csv file which we want to read:

Here is a code snippet:

open FSharp.Data  type Books = CsvProvider<"..\ExampleCSV.csv"> let Saleitems = Books.Load("..\ExampleCSV-2.csv") ...