F# - that strange beast tucked under 'Other languages' in your Visual Studio setup.  You don't know much about it, but you are sure of one thing:

"It won't ever get used here!"

This talk gives you the tools to get past the 'not here' barrier:

- Instant gratification: Practical wins - right here, right now!

- Guerilla tactics: become a Functional Trotskyist.

- Epic win: How we coded a game changing calculation engine, in a couple of evenings, while watching the telly.

A test involving an SQL database is an integration test, right?

Not any more!

Find out how to put together fine-grained, performant unit tests of database artefacts using F#, FSUnit and a little bit of pixie dust.

- Creating and tearing down a database with no residue.
- Bringing the database up to a specific schema version.
- Writing and executing FSUnit unit tests.
- Test driving your schema.