Re:The Problem with F# Evangelism
by tarmil on Thursday August 17, 2017 @10:52AM
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Actually, for the providers from FSharp.Data.TypeProviders, it's only necessary when you need to pull a schema change.
You can pass `LocalSchemaFile = "foo.ssdl", ForceUpdate = false` to the provider, and it will only try to connect to the database if the file foo.ssdl doesn't exist; if it does, then the provider just uses it to compute the schema. When the schema changes, you just need to set ForceUpdate to true, wait for the IDE to pull the changes from the server and write foo.ssdl, then set ForceUpdate back to false, and you can commit the changed file.
You can pass `LocalSchemaFile = "foo.ssdl", ForceUpdate = false` to the provider, and it will only try to connect to the database if the file foo.ssdl doesn't exist; if it does, then the provider just uses it to compute the schema. When the schema changes, you just need to set ForceUpdate to true, wait for the IDE to pull the changes from the server and write foo.ssdl, then set ForceUpdate back to false, and you can commit the changed file.