We’ll look at both general functionality and how that functionality would be implemented using three different styles of ORM: Entity Framework, Dapper, and Tortuga Chain.

The following is a generic repository for Entity Framework 6 with methods for both synchronous and asynchronous data operations. When you create an instance of your repository service, ...

In using the Repository design pattern, you can hide the details of how the data is eventually stored or retrieved to and from the data store. This data store can be a database, an xml file, etc.