Building web, cloud, and mobile solutions with F♯

Copyright
Table of Contents
Preface
	Who This Book Is For
	Getting Set Up to Run the Examples
	How This Book Is Organized
	Conventions Used in This Book
	Using Code Examples
	Safari® Books Online
	How to Contact Us
	Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Building an ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application with F#
	The F# ASP.NET MVC 4 Project Templates
		Finding and Installing the Templates
		Exploring the C# Project
		Dissecting the F# Project
	F# Controllers and Models
		Controllers
		Models
	Interacting with a Database
		Entity Framework
		Querying the Data
		Querying with Type Providers
	Taking Advantage of F#
		Moving to a More Functional Approach
		Understanding Pipelining and Partial Function Application
		Making the Controller More Functional
		Simplification with Pattern Matching
	Related Advanced Topics and Concepts
		Improving Responsiveness with Async Workflows
		Caching with MailboxProcessor
		Jumping on the Message Bus
		Continuation-Passing Style
		Creating a Custom Computation Expression
	Summary
Chapter 2. Creating Web Services with F#
	Installing the Existing WCF Project Template
	Exploring the Output Code
		Consuming the Service
		Diving into Records
	Building an ASP.NET Web API Service
		Analyzing the Template
		Interacting with the HTTP Service
	Exploring Other Web Frameworks
		Service Stack
		Nancy
		Frank
	Testing Your Creation
		Getting Set Up
		Improving Tests with F#
		FsUnit
		Unquote
		NaturalSpec
	Summary
Chapter 3. To the Cloud! Taking Advantage of Azure
	Building and Hosting F# on Azure
	Creating an F# Worker Role
	Introducing Fog
	Interacting with Azure Storage Options
		Blobs
		Tables
		Queue Storage
		SQL Azure
	Taking Advantage of the Azure Service Bus
		Queues
		Topics
	Exploring Authentication and Authorization
		Authentication and Authorization with ACS
		Claims-based Authentication
		Claims-based Authorization
	Building for Scalability
		Building the Web Role
		Understanding the PlaceOrderCommand
		On to the Worker Roles
		Wrapping Up the SQL Azure Worker Role
		Adding the Finishing Touches
		Caching
		CDN and Autoscaling
	Shining F# Examples
		{m}brace
		Cloud Numerics
		Framework for .NET Hadoop MapReduce
	Summary
Chapter 4. Constructing Scalable Web and Mobile Solutions
	Scaling with Web Sockets
		Building a Web Socket Example with .NET 4.5 and IIS 8
		Creating a Web Socket Server with Fleck
	Using SignalR
		Building a Persistent Connection Example
		A JavaScript Client
		An F# Client
		Constructing a Hub Example
	Going Mobile
		The jQuery Mobile Approach
		Adding Windows Phone
	Combining F# and NoSQL
		MongoDB
		RavenDB
		CouchDB
	Summary
Chapter 5. Functional Frontend Development
	Setting the Stage
	Looking at LiveScript
		Benefits
		Usage
		Example
	Exploring Pit
		Benefits
		Usage
		Example
	Diving into WebSharper
		Benefits
		Usage
		Example
	Summary
Appendix A. Useful Tools and Libraries
	FAKE (F# Make)
	NuGet
		Basic Usage
		Useful NuGet Packages
	ExpectThat
Appendix B. Useful Websites
	fssnip.net
	tryfsharp.org
	Visual Studio Gallery
	jQueryMobile.com
Appendix C. Client-Side Technologies That Go Well with F#
	CoffeeScript
	Sass
	Underscore.js
Index
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