How to marry EntityFramework, Repository, UnitOfWork and Automapper altogether in one MVC application?

Question

First I decided to create one Interface called it IDataAccessLayer and started putting everything into it: methods like GetUsers(), GetUser(i

Answer 1

Did you go through these tutorials.

Answer 2

First here is an overall article about n-tier architecture using the Repository and UnitOfWork principles: link. I have some experience working with EF and the afore mentioned patterns and I found this article of great help.

Take a look here as well as here for the MSDN articles on those principles.

Regards.

Answer 3

You might take a look at this sample (MVCArch) I've written some months ago. It takes advantages of :

• Entity Framework
• Repository & Unit Of Work patterns
• Automapper
• Ninject
• etc...

Hope this helps.