F# Code for Adventure Works Sample

Question

hey everybody,

it is very hard to find good samples for f# in the web. some samples show a simple web crawler for downloading stock data from yahoo or only code snippets of bigger ideas.

i'm searching for an real world example outside the financial world. what about adventureworks? the current sample database is the base of many c# samples out there. why is there now f# sample?

i don't want a sample where f# makes a gui for a table of it! isn't there any f# ideal processing? i like a sample where i can see the power of f#. a sample which show's me why i should learn the language instead of simply using (more code) c#.

• is there any sample for adventure works online?
• are there any real world processes based on the sample database (functional programming)

best regards - michl

Answer 1

I'm sorry but I know no AdventureWorks sample in F#, but this might interest you anyways: wcfstorm. It is a tool to test WCF services, written in F#.

Answer 2

Have you seen this?

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/fsharpsamples

Answer 3

IntelliFactory have some nice samples for how you might build a web UI using F#, the examples are based on their WebSharper product. It's not free but if your serious about building a LOB app in F# then it's definitely worth looking at, as in my humble opinion, it's really good: http://www.intellifactory.com/products/wsp/Tutorial.aspx#

For the data side I'm told Entity Framework V2 works reasonable well for F#, and there's always my FunctionalNHibernate project which is in it's infancy but really quite cute: http://bitbucket.org/robertpi/functionalnhibernate/