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Activity for February 2026

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• Review PR [Repo Assist] Add PreferDateTimeOffset parameter to CsvProvider, JsonProvider, and XmlProvider #1668: Add PreferDateTimeOffset to CsvProvider, JsonProvider, XmlProvider — closes Configure default DateTimeKind when no timezone information given #1100, CsvProvider has no option to write dates without timezone information. #1072 — Review
• Review PR [Repo Assist] Use HttpClient with SocketsHttpHandler on .NET 8+ to avoid socket exhaustion #1667: Use HttpClient with SocketsHttpHandler on .NET 8+ — closes Use System.Net.Http.HttpClient #1392 — Review
• Review PR [Repo Assist] Remove FSI testing setup files (SetupTesting.fsx, Test.fsx) #1666: Remove FSI testing setup files (SetupTesting.fsx, Test.fsx) — closes Document how to use the SetupTesting.fsx script #1321 — Review
• Review PR [Repo Assist] Change HTTP response default encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 #1665: Change HTTP response default encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 — closes Problem with Http.RequestString detection of response content encoding #1251 — Review
• Review PR [Repo Assist] Make Http.AppendQueryToUrl public #1664: Make Http.AppendQueryToUrl public — closes Make AppendQueryToUrl public #1325 — Review
• Review PR [Repo Assist] Add UseSchemaTypeNames parameter to XmlProvider for XSD type deduplication #1663: Add UseSchemaTypeNames to XmlProvider — closes XmlProvider generates types based on name attribute in XSD schema rather than the type attribute #1488 — Review
• Review PR [Repo Assist] Add TOML type provider (TomlProvider) #1652: Add TomlProvider type provider — closes Add a TOML type provider #1650 — Review
• Review PR [Repo Assist] Add YamlProvider type provider #1646: Add YamlProvider type provider — closes Suggestion: Add yaml type provider to F# data family? #1645 — Review
• Close issue Replace FSharp.Charting with XPlot in documentation and examples #1114: FSharp.Charting no longer appears in docs — task appears complete — View
• Check comment on Allow to specify headers in the type providers static parameters when the Sample/Schema is a URL #1132: Repo Assist added implementation guidance for Headers static param — View
• Check comment on Access tables in HTML Type Provider by index #809: Repo Assist added workaround for HTML table index access — View

Future Work for Repo Assist

• Add With* methods to XmlProvider types — complex structure (attributes, child elements, text values); scoped out of prior PRs
• Add PreferDateTimeOffset to HtmlProvider (requires changes to HtmlGenerator.fs; deferred from main PR)
• Implement Headers static param for type providers (Allow to specify headers in the type providers static parameters when the Sample/Schema is a URL #1132) after existing PRs are reviewed

Run History

2026-02-26 13:16 UTC — Run

• 💬 Commented on Replace FSharp.Charting with XPlot in documentation and examples #1114: FSharp.Charting no longer in docs, suggested closing
• 💬 Commented on Allow to specify headers in the type providers static parameters when the Sample/Schema is a URL #1132: Provided implementation guidance for Headers static param feature

2026-02-26 12:53 UTC — Run

• 🔧 Created draft PR [Repo Assist] Add PreferDateTimeOffset parameter to CsvProvider, JsonProvider, and XmlProvider #1668: Add PreferDateTimeOffset parameter to CsvProvider, JsonProvider, XmlProvider — closes Configure default DateTimeKind when no timezone information given #1100, CsvProvider has no option to write dates without timezone information. #1072 — 2846/2847 core tests pass (1 network sandbox failure, pre-existing)
• 💬 Commented on Configure default DateTimeKind when no timezone information given #1100: PreferDateTimeOffset PR submitted
• 💬 Commented on CsvProvider has no option to write dates without timezone information. #1072: PreferDateTimeOffset PR submitted

2026-02-26 12:41 UTC — Run

• 💬 Commented on Access tables in HTML Type Provider by index #809: Added workaround for accessing HTML tables by index via HtmlDocument.Descendants

2026-02-26 12:16 UTC — Run

• 🔧 Created draft PR [Repo Assist] Use HttpClient with SocketsHttpHandler on .NET 8+ to avoid socket exhaustion #1667: Use HttpClient with SocketsHttpHandler on .NET 8+ — closes Use System.Net.Http.HttpClient #1392 — 2846/2847 tests pass
• 💬 Commented on Use System.Net.Http.HttpClient #1392: HttpClient migration PR submitted

2026-02-26 12:08 UTC — Run

• 💬 Commented on Configure default DateTimeKind when no timezone information given #1100: Explained DateTimeKind workaround using date/datetimeoffset schema annotations, proposed PreferDateTimeOffset parameter
• 💬 Commented on CsvProvider has no option to write dates without timezone information. #1072: Explained date-writing workaround using "date" and "datetimeoffset" schema type annotations

2026-02-26 12:00 UTC — Run

• 🔧 Created draft PR [Repo Assist] Remove FSI testing setup files (SetupTesting.fsx, Test.fsx) #1666: Remove FSI testing setup files (SetupTesting.fsx, Test.fsx) — closes #1321 — per @dsyme's instruction to remove FSI testing path

2026-02-26 11:41 UTC — Run

• 🔧 Created draft PR [Repo Assist] Change HTTP response default encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 #1665: Change HTTP response default encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 — closes #1251 — 2846/2847 tests pass (1 network test blocked by sandbox)
• 💬 Commented on Problem with Http.RequestString detection of response content encoding #1251: PR submitted for UTF-8 default encoding fix

2026-02-26 11:33 UTC — Run

• 💬 Commented on Global inference mode for JsonProvider #1018: Explained recursive JSON type limitation and Global-mode workaround

2026-02-26 11:20 UTC — Run

• 🔧 Created draft PR [Repo Assist] Make Http.AppendQueryToUrl public #1664: Make Http.AppendQueryToUrl public — closes #1325 — 5 unit tests added; all core tests pass
• 💬 Commented on Make AppendQueryToUrl public #1325: PR created, AppendQueryToUrl is now public

2026-02-26 11:18 UTC — Run

• 🔧 Updated PR [Repo Assist] Add YamlProvider type provider #1646: Added 20 core library tests for YamlDocument, added PreferOptionals static param, merged latest main, updated release notes

2026-02-26 10:36 UTC — Run

• 🔧 Created draft PR [Repo Assist] Add UseSchemaTypeNames parameter to XmlProvider for XSD type deduplication #1663: Add UseSchemaTypeNames parameter to XmlProvider — closes #1488
• 💬 Commented on XmlProvider generates types based on name attribute in XSD schema rather than the type attribute #1488: Explained implementation and PR

2026-02-26 03:42 UTC — Run

• 🔧 Created draft PR: Add MarkdownProvider type provider — closes #1657 (PR closed by dsyme — Add a Markdown type provider #1657 marked complete)

2026-02-25 20:39 UTC — Run

• 🔧 Created draft PR [Repo Assist] Add PreferOptionals parameter to XmlProvider and JsonProvider #1660: Add PreferOptionals parameter to XmlProvider and JsonProvider (merged by @dsyme 2026-02-25)
• 💬 Commented on PreferOptionals param for XmlProvider #649: PreferOptionals implementation complete, PR created

2026-02-25 19:44 UTC — Run

• 🔧 Created draft PR [Repo Assist] Add PreferFloats static parameter to CsvProvider #1655: Add PreferFloats static parameter to CsvProvider (merged by @dsyme 2026-02-25)
• 💬 Commented on Add PreferFloats static param to CsvProvider #838: Linked to PR

2026-02-25 — Various runs

• 🔄 Updated PR [Repo Assist] Add YamlProvider type provider #1646: Fixed build CI failures, addressed dsyme's review requests (quoted YAML string inference, localhost fix)
• 💬 Commented on type construction very slow for CSV Files with large number of variables e.g. 1000+  #1207, Parallel parsing of Csv files #1159, Add option to not pascal case column names in CsvProvider #900, CsvProvider - possible to retrieve exception when row fails to parse? #942, Descendants and CssSelect do not take all elements corectly #1130, [CSV Type provider] When path to csv file is wrong, type provider shows strange errors. #953, CsvFile.Load doesn't use current directory from system.environment #1080, Project fails to find FSharp.Core anytime I try to compile with a reference to FSharp.Data #1220, XmlProvider captures current directory at design time #818, Is there a "functional" API for JSON? #1257, CSV TP behaviour has changed for local files? #1218, CsvProvider Documentation - Google finance historical 403 Forbidden #1138
• 🏷️ Labelled Add a TOML type provider #1650, Make CI faster #1649, Suggestion: Add yaml type provider to F# data family? #1645 with enhancement / performance
• 🔧 Created draft PR 🚀 Speed up PR CI with NuGet cache and action upgrades #1656: Speed up CI for pull requests (merged by @dsyme 2026-02-25)

2026-02-25 03:53 UTC — Run

• 🔧 Created draft PR [Repo Assist] Add TOML type provider (TomlProvider) #1652: Add TomlProvider type provider — closes #1650

2026-02-24 21:00 UTC — Run

• 🔧 Created draft PR [Repo Assist] Add With* methods to CsvProvider Row and JsonProvider record types (closes #1431) #1639: Add With* methods to CsvProvider Row and JsonProvider (merged by @dsyme 2026-02-24)

2026-02-24 20:20 UTC — Run

• 🔧 Created draft PR [Repo Assist] Add OmitNullFields static parameter to JsonProvider (closes #1245) #1638: Add OmitNullFields static parameter to JsonProvider (merged by @dsyme 2026-02-24)
• 💬 Commented on Is there a way to hide properties with null values for JsonProvider? #1245, XmlProvider types/members not visible when debugging #1237

2026-02-24 — Various earlier runs

• 💬 Commented on JsonProvider error when type is consumed from another project #1031, CssSelect doesn't work as expected #1188, PreferOptionals param for XmlProvider #649, Add asynchronous TextReader/TextWriter APIs #1265, Support for armv7 raspberry pi 3 #1298, Question: Is this project hackable on the dotnet 6 preview versions? #1385, JSON constructors create values that don't correspond to the original schema #1271, Error opening a library that uses JsonProvider with an embedded resource #1191, Cannot read XSD: 'Element not defined' #1236
• 🔧 Created draft PRs [Repo Assist] Add DtdProcessing static parameter to XmlProvider (closes #1632) #1635 (merged), [Repo Assist] Add UseOriginalNames parameter to XmlProvider, CsvProvider, JsonProvider #1629 (merged), [Repo Assist] Fix HTML parser dropping whitespace between inline elements (issue #1330) #1630 (merged), [Repo Assist] Improve EmbeddedResource documentation with step-by-step guide #1631 (merged), [Repo Assist] Fix #1221 — JsonValue.Float always infers as float, not int/int64 #1628 (closed)

2026-02-22 — Various runs

• 🔧 Created 10 draft PRs — all merged by @dsyme on 2026-02-22–23: [Repo Assist] Fix HtmlNode.ToString: preserve whitespace in elements nested inside <pre> #1605–[Repo Assist] Fix JsonConversions.AsDecimal to handle JsonValue.Float #1608, [Repo Assist] Fix #1383: Throw NotSupportedException for unrecognized CSS pseudo-classes #1613–[Repo Assist] Update test/build dependencies: FAKE 6.1.4, NUnit 3.13.3, FsUnit 4.2.0, FsCheck 2.16.6 #1614, [Repo Assist] Fix #1437: xs:dateTime values without timezone now parse correctly as DateTimeOffset #1617, [Repo Assist] Fix #1310: GetSchema works correctly when EmbeddedResource is specified for XSD schemas #1619, [Repo Assist] Add StrictBooleans static parameter to CsvProvider #1621, [Repo Assist] Fix #1439: InferRows counts CSV rows, not text lines (multiline quoted fields) #1625, [Repo Assist] Fix #1419: Add cycle guard for XSD group references to prevent StackOverflow #1626

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✅ Close issue #1509: Fix was merged in PR #1510 (July 2024) — #1509

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The PR for this one was bogus and needs to be redone:

#1622 #1621