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Building F# Type Providers

Type providers are one of F#'s most interesting features, but using them can often feel a bit like magic. By building your own type provider, you can gain a better understanding of how type providers work.

What you'll learn

Type providers are one of F#'s most interesting features, but using them can often feel a bit like magic. By building your own type provider, you can gain a better understanding of how type providers work. In this course, you'll build a simple type provider for reading ID3 frames from an MP3 file using the Type Provider Starter Pack. Along the way, we'll discuss the type erasure and explore the role of code quotations in type provider development.

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