Dapper provides the basis for a great database access toolkit. Wrapping its primitives in a small, general-purpose repository enables concise, clear code. The repository interface presented here is highly-opinionated–your mileage may vary.
Dapper is a superb alternative to Entity Framework. With just a little extra elbow grease, it provides a performant (and vastly more transparent) way to do your application IO. This article looks at using Dapper with .NET’s dependency injection.
This article shows how to use the “Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration” Nuget package to use an “appsettings.json” file with a C# 10 console application.
This article shows a way to create one-to-many queries with Dapper.
To work effectively, Dapper needs a C# model of the corresponding SQL table. This post documents a utility that produces a Json schema for a SQL Server table that can then be used to provide a C# model of the table for Dapper (or any other purpose).
