Dapper

Kent Sharkey

I haven't used it, but I understand that there is an article in next month's MSDN Magazine about it (should be on the site on Monday). Julie Lerman (she of much EF writing) liked it.

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Lost User

Yep. It's relatively easy to use, but also not too powerful. It does a good job of abstracting away the database, but not much more. At least it's not a memory hog and does not slow down things too much.

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Slacker007

EF 6 has more optimizations than before, and is more powerful IMHO then 4 or 5. Any reason why you can't use that?

realJSOP

Slacker007 wrote:

EF 6 has ... Any reason why you can't use that?

It's from Microsoft.

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Richard Deeming

Very good. It's not trying to do everything, like EF or NHibernate; it just makes certain tasks with raw ADO.NET a lot easier.

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Slacker007

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

It's from Microsoft.

Well, that is not really a good reason. You have to have a better reason for that, I would think. Our shop/company has been using EF 5 and 6 with great results. We recently went to Code First, and I like that too, despite my initial hesitation...to change.

Nish Nishant

Dapper is written in C# which is from Microsoft too :-)

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Slacker007

:-D I rest my case.

realJSOP

Slacker007 wrote:

Well, that is not really a good reason.

It's always been a good reason in the past. And I like living in the past.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

realJSOP

C# is simply a copy of java, but without the cross-platform capabilities.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

realJSOP

Besides all of the above, I didn't ask if anyone had used EF.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

Slacker007

Fair enough, John.

realJSOP

I looked in NuGet, and there's a crapload of dapper-related stuff in there. What's worth getting?

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

Sascha Lefevre

I'm no Java guy but observing the news Kent posts about Java language development it looks like the table has turned and Java becomes a copy of C# ;P More on topic: If you're looking for a non-Microsoft "heavy" ORM then I would suggest to take a look at VITA[^]. I haven't used it myself yet but it sounds really good.

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Richard Deeming

I've only used the core package[^] so far. Dapper.Contrib[^] looks interesting, and is maintained by the same team: Dapper.Contrib - more extensions for dapper[^]

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Nish Nishant

BTW, a few folks claim that Dapper's faster than EF6 - so I guess there's that.

Regards, Nish

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Sascha Lefevre

It most certainly is - but that's apples and oranges.

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Slacker007

I have heard of Dapper, and that is about all. I have the most experience with EF but I am not going on the record to say that it is the best. I'm sure there are applications best suited for Dapper. I found this to be interesting. The conclusion at the end is the most important. Dapper looks to be faster in a lot of respects. Interesting. Don't Panic Labs – Speed Comparison: Dapper vs Entity Framework[^] Looks like Stackoverflow uses Dapper.

Jorgen Andersson

The difference is big! If you want faster you have to run your own, like I did.

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David Crow

Aren't .NET and Mono both from Microsoft, or are you targeting some other platform?

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