Fairway Technologies Blog ADO.NET Data Wrapper Classes

When developers think of how to access data, many use the Entity Framework (EF), Dapper, NHibernate, or some other object-relational mapper (ORM). Each of these ORMs use ADO.NET to submit their SQL queries to the back-end database. So, why do we use ORMs instead of just using ADO.NET directly? Simply put, ORMs allow you to write less code. If each of these ORMs are simply wrappers around ADO.NET, can't you write your own wrapper to cut down the amount of code you need to write? Absolutely! This article describes a set of wrapper classes to make it simpler to work with ADO.NET. This article does not go into every line of code in the wrapper; it is intended as an overview of the functionality. The complete code for the data wrapper can be downloaded from the Fairway Technologies resource site listed at the end of this article.