Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
F# 4.0 Design Patterns

You're reading from   F# 4.0 Design Patterns Solve complex problems with functional thinking

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884726
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Gene Belitski Gene Belitski
Author Profile Icon Gene Belitski
Gene Belitski
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Begin Thinking Functionally 2. Dissecting F# Origins and Design FREE CHAPTER 3. Basic Functions 4. Basic Pattern Matching 5. Algebraic Data Types 6. Sequences - The Core of Data Processing Patterns 7. Advanced Techniques: Functions Revisited 8. Data Crunching – Data Transformation Patterns 9. More Data Crunching 10. Type Augmentation and Generic Computations 11. F# Expert Techniques 12. F# and OOP Principles/Design Patterns 13. Troubleshooting Functional Code

Data querying

So far in the book, the sources of data collections were either collection generators or the file system. Let me move toward more realistic enterprise data sources, where data are persisted in databases. To access and transform such data, F# provides query expressions (https://msdn.microsoft.com/visualfsharpdocs/conceptual/query-expressions-%5bfsharp%5d).

Query expressions represent a concrete type of computation expressions that is embedded into the language. They allow to bring data into memory by querying external sources and transforming incoming data to the desired shape.

The F# query expressions are akin to sequence expressions: both produce data sequences. However, before the final data projection shaping the produced data sequence a query expression may apply to data a wide variety of data transformations that are similar to what we used to see in LINQ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query). Query expressions can be considered LINQ support in F#...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime