The F# 3.0 Freebase Type Provider Sample includes some support for query translation from F# 3.0 LINQ queries to MQL. Some sample queries are here. You can write queries in F# 3.0 with auto-completion and strong typing, and still execute efficiently on the server, at least for those queries translated by the sample. Here are some details query translation in the sample at the time of writing. Single, non-nested 'for' loops over a collection, for book in data.``Arts and Entertainment``.Books.Books do Wh[...]

The F# 3.0 Freebase Type Provider Sample includes some support for query translation from F# 3.0 LINQ queries to MQL. This means you can write queries in F# 3.0 with auto-completion and strong typing, and still execute efficiently on the server, at least for the queries translated to MQL  Here are some sample queries using the F# 3.0 Freebase Type Provider Sample.  These are translated fully to MQL (Note: some require the latest updates to the sample)     #r @"..\..\Debug\net45\Samples.DataStore.Freebase.d[...]

The Freebase Type Provider Sample in the F# 3.0 Sample Pack supports a number of interesting static parameters to the type provider which control how Freebase is integrated into the F# programming language. These parameters are as follows: Key      The API key for the Freebase service default: none ServiceUrl       The service URL for the Freebase service default: https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1 NumIndividuals The maximum number of sample individuals for each Freebase type, e.g. data.`[...]

Tip for the day: If you get the error ""Type provider assembly ... is not trusted and will not be loaded for security reasons" and you want to explicitly opt-in to trusting it, then Go to the Tools --> Options --> F# Tools --> Type Providers" in Visual Studio Tick the assembly.or add a new entry for it The error will appear if You said "no" to trusting the assembly when the choice was first offered to you (e.g. maybe you pressed return or space quickly without noticing when the dialog appeared) You used[...]

Today we have added a new sample to the F# 3.0 Sample Pack – the Freebase Type Provider Sample!  You can also read the hot-off-the-presses technical report from our partner team in Microsoft Research which gives some of the background to this sample, watch F# 3.0: data, services, Web, cloud, at your fingertips where we first demonstrated this type provider, or watch the F# 3.0 Information Rich Programming launch video. Freebase is self-described as “an entity graph of people, places and things, built by a [...]