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The C# Workshop

You're reading from   The C# Workshop Kickstart your career as a software developer with C#

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800566491
Length 780 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Almantas Karpavicius Almantas Karpavicius
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Jason Hales Jason Hales
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Working with a Database in Enterprise

When talking about databases, you usually imagine SQL or another language to talk with them. On top of that, another language (C#, in this case) is most often used to connect to a database to execute SQL queries. If not controlled, C# gets mixed with SQL, and it causes a mess of your code. Over the years, there have been a few patterns refined to implement the communication with a database in a clean way. Two such patterns, namely, Repository and CQRS, are commonly used to this day.

Repository Pattern

The Repository is a pattern that targets a model and defines all (if needed) possible CRUD operations. For example, if you take a Product model, you could have a repository with this interface:

public interface IProductRepository
{
    int Create(Product product);
    void Delete(int id);
    void Update(Product product);
    Product Get(int id);
  ...
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