The ORM is definitely very read-focused, which is probably not that surprising given that it's used for web, and given the motivations for creating it, discusse

The ORM is definitely very read-focused, which is probably not that surprising given that it's used for web, and given the motivations for creating it, discussed at the blog post mentioned by @gokhan [1]. It would be nice to have some lightweight stuff for updating/inserting too, though I guess doing it in such a way that you don't need to write lots of boilerplate kinda requires SQL generation, which dapper is avoiding on purpose. [1]: http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/03/30/How+I+learned+to+stop+worrying+and+write+my+own+ORM http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/03/30/How+I+learned+to+st...