PIpixelbath·Oct 16, 2019
It is also the name of the object-mapping framework created by Stack Exchange: https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper
In Dapr: an open-source project to make it easier to build microservicesDapperLib
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Dapper
Dapper - a simple object mapper for .Net
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Dapper - a simple object mapper for .Net
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Observed mentions: 2014-07-22 01:07:27 UTC to 2026-08-07 22:57:37 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesWell, requests is a third party library. I don't like Python's standard library's HTTP APIs. I think that's a common sentiment. Similarly, you can get a solid third party its client for dotnet [1]. .NET core certainly has its shortcomings. I'm going to rattle of a list of other high quality libraries that address the .NET core shortcomings for me personally:
1) Dapper - https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper
2) DbUp - https://dbup.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
3) Autofac - https://autofac.org/
The Kestrel source code expanded my view of what was possible in C# with respect to low level operations on memory (check out the fixed statement [2]).
A part of me doesn't want to like Microsoft because of their anti-competitive behavior in the past and crappy developer experiences from 10 years ago. Now, I sound like a Microsoft shill because of how
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good .NET core is.
[1] https://github.com/restsharp/RestSharp
[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
Dapper for C# made by StackOverflow team
https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper
In What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)As a note - I've done a lot of SQL in C#, and Stack Overflow's Dapper[0] library is _fantastic_ for dealing with that. You can pass in all the SQL you like, or a stored procedure, and it deals with virtually all of the query parameterization and boilerplate around getting results out of the DB. It's saved me hours of tedium and typing.
It's the perfect micro-ORM. Eliminates boilerplate, gets out of the way otherwise.
[0] https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper
In What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)For .NET there is a sweet middle-ground called Dapper[0]. SO uses it and they have great performance.
[0] https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper
In ORMs Are BackwardsDapper is similar and it got some traction in the .NET community.
https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper
In To ORM or Not to ORM