F# Type Providers

In this talk, Tao Liu will introduce Type Providers, a new feature of F# 3.0. Type providers are a mechanism which enables information-rich programming, and simplifies working with data from diverse information sources.
The talk will

1. provide a brief introduction to F#

2. present the 4 built-in type providers:

databases web API type provider 3) demonstrate how to write your own type provider, by demonstrating the following:

introduce the design of type providers, and how they provide types and class members, explaining where the type and class members are coming from, meta programming using type provider, exploring features at design time with type providers.

The Speaker

Tao Liu is a Microsoft F# core team member at Redmond, WA, and presents the most popular F# talk on channel 9 about F# and Design Pattern. He is the author of the forthcoming book “F# for C# developer” at Microsoft Press. He was a Software lead for multiviewer Centrio product in Harris Corporation, won the cooperation Innovation Award, and has a pending patent for a real-time rules engine. You can find Tao’s blog at http://apollo13cn.blogspot.com (http://apollo13cn.blogspot.com/), and follow him on Twitter as @ttliu2000 (https://twitter.com/ttliu2000)