Dot Net Data Access Tour

A tour of different data access approaches in .NET 5+.

Note: This is meant to demonstrate different ways to make data access calls, not best practices (or even reasonably good practices) for building ASP.NET Core Web APIs.

Data Access Options (CRUD + Queries)

• ADO.NET Custom SQL
• ADO.NET Stored Procs
• Dapper Custom SQL
• Dapper Stored Procs
• EF Core + Custom Queries

Additional Options

• Repository layer
• Application layer

Running the App - Create the Database

EF and its Migrations are not required for all of these variants, but it does provide a quick and easy way to get your data in place if you want to run these samples. Just run this command from the WebDataDemo folder:

Run this command to get ef core tools

dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef

dotnet ef database update