Introducing Type Providers

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F# Azure Storage Type Provider v1.0 released!

So, last week I finally released the F# Azure Storage Type Provider as v1! I learned a hell of a lot about writing Type Providers in F# as a result over the last few months... Anyway - v1.0 deals with Blobs and Tables; I'm hoping to integrate Queues and possibly Files in the future (the …

Azure Storage Type Provider re-released

Just a short post to say that I've re-released the Azure Storage Type Provider on NuGet with a number of changes. In short, on the back end I've re-written a lot of the backing code to reduce the size of the codebase, reorganised the folder structure to comply with other F# projects, introduced FAKE. From …

Azure Storage F# Type Provider – Now with Table Support

In the words of Professor Farnsworth - Good news everybody! I've finally gotten around to looking at adding some basic Azure Table Storage support to the Azure Type Provider. Why Table Storage? There are some difficulties with interacting with Azure Table Storage through the native .NET API, some of which impacts how useful (or not) …

An Azure Type Provider for F# – first steps

I plan on blogging a bit more about my experiences with writing Type Providers in general as there's a dearth of material readily available online. At any rate, after several false starts, I now have a moderately usable version of a Azure Blob Storage type provider on GitHub! It's easy to consume - just create …