Lightweight alternatives to NHibernate

Question

NHibernate is not really a good fit for our environment due to all the dependencies. (Castle, log4net etc.)

Is there a good lightweight alternative?

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Answer 1

Generally speaking, for your database backend to work with .net you need an ADO.Net provider for it.

For MS Access (Jet), the Provider is shipped with .net. For SQLite, there is a selfcontained ADO.Net Provider.

As for the data access layer lib, if you want some abstraction over ADO.Net:

• MS Data Access Application Block, a part of ms enterprise library.
• iBatis.Net (Was retired by the Apache Foundation in 2010) MyBatis.net
• ADOTemplate from the Spring Framework.net

All those work well starting with framework 2.0 and up.

Basically, you choose (and there is a lot of choices)