F# Hands-On: Type Provider Treasure Hunt Dojo

In this session, we'll have some fun with F# Type Providers! In most programming languages, accessing data is pain – you have to parse data into some object and then dynamically extract the value you are interested in, or you need to use some external tool for code generation. Type providers completely change the story by integrating data directly in the language, enabling access to a wide range of data sources in a type-safe way, with full IDE integration. In this session, we’ll look at type providers for CSV, XML and JSON files, accessing data from online stores like Freebase and WorldBank and calling REST based and WSDL based web services!

This session will be organized as a dojo / interactive workshop. Come over, write some code together, and learn yourself some F# for great good! No prior experience required, F# beginners are very welcome - it will be a great opportunity to see F# in action, learn together, and see why F# is awesome.

To get the most from the session, please try and bring a laptop along with F# installed (ideally either MonoDevelop, Xamarin Studio or Visual Studio Web Express/Full Edition). Check out fsharp.org for instructions on how to get F# ready on your machine.

Courtesy of our awesome sponsor ThoughtWorks, we'll have some food & drinks available.