Dapper is a simple micro-ORM used to simplify working with ADO.NET; if you like SQL but dislike the boilerplate of ADO.NET: Dapper is for you!

As a simple example:

string region = ...
var customers = connection.Query<Customer>(
    "select * from Customers where Region = @region", // SQL
    new { region } // parameters
    ).AsList();

But all the execute/single-row/scalar/async/etc functionality you would expect: is there as extension methods on your DbConnection.

See GitHub for more information and examples.

Dapper was originally developed for and by Stack Overflow, but is F/OSS. Sponsorship is welcome and invited - see the sponsor link at the top of the page. A huge thanks to everyone (individuals or organisations) who have sponsored Dapper, but a massive thanks in particular to:

• Dapper Plus is a major sponsor and is proud to contribute to the development of Dapper (read more)
• AWS who sponsored Dapper from Oct 2023 via the .NET on AWS Open Source Software Fund