ORMs vs Micro ORMs

By David Paquette

Elevator Pitch

Does your .NET application really need full power of Entity Framework or (shudder) nHibernate? Let’s take a look at micro ORMs like Dapper.NET and see how they can simplify your application.

Description

In this session, we take a giant step back and review the history of database access in .NET. Why do Object Relational Mappers exist? What problems are they trying to solve? What new problems did they create for us? What are these new fangled Micro-ORMs that everyone is talking about? What should you be using in your application?