ASP.NET MVC: Best Way To Call Stored Procedure

Question

I\'m trying to decide which is the best way to call a stored procedure.

I\'m new to ASP.NET MVC and I\'ve been reading a lot about Linq to SQL and Entity Framework,

Answer 1

I common pattern is to pass a repository interface into your controller by dependency injection. The choice of what persistence/orm technology you use is really another issue and unrelated to the fact that you are using MVC. Using the repository pattern and coding to abstractions (interfaces) makes your application easy to test by mocking out your repositories.

I think you should also try to use as few stored procedures as possible. This means you can more easily test your logic in isolation (unit tests) without needing to be connected to a database. I would highly recommend looking at NHibernate. The learning curve is fairly steep but you are in full control of your mappings and configuration. There are obviously occasions where you will need stored procs for performance reasons, but using an ORM predominantly is very beneficial.