Tao Liu from the F# team will introduce F# 3.0 type providers. 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, and follow him on Twitter as @ttliu2000.

• brief introduction of F# 3.0 new features.
• how to write your own type provider by answering the following questions
  • 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.
  • (possible, but need to talk with Don) multi-targeting feature using type provider.