Thanks to everyone who participated in the first ANUG lightning talk this wednesday. It was a fun to dive into the subtle differences between Nancy, ServiceStack and WebAPI. As with everything else – it is always more fun when you win the battle of course :)

The demo and slides are available at dotnetnerd.dk/talks/webapi.zip - along with a small sample of using type providers in F# for building a WebAPI service.

Later this month on the 25th I will be speaking along with two other speakers about webframeworks at an ANUG meeting. The frameworks covered are ServiceStack, Nancy and WebAPI where I will cover the latter.

While I have been preparing my eye cought a new feature in F#, which I think is one of the first really good stories for F# that makes sence outside akademia and science. Type Providers give us a way to access data sources that provide its own metadata, and this fits nicely with building WebAPI services.