Understanding what Dapper Is and Its Benefits

Dapper

Dapper is a performance-focused simple object mapper for .NET that helps map SQL query output to instances of a C# class. It is built and maintained by the Stack Overflow team, has been released as open source, and is a popular alternative to Microsoft’s Entity Framework.

So, why use Dapper rather than Entity FrameworkEntity Framework (EF) serves as an object-relational mapper, empowering .NET developers to interact with relational data through domain-specific objects. This streamlines the process by significantly reducing the necessity for developers to manually create data-access code.? The goal of Entity Framework is to abstract away the database, so it trades learning SQL for Entity Framework-specific objects such as DBSet and DataContext. We generally don’t write SQL with Entity Framework – instead, we write LINQLanguage-Integrated Query (LINQ) represents a ...