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I am considering using Breeze.js for a client-side SPA project, but using Dapper ORM instead of Entity Framework for the server-side data access.

I know Breeze.js is marketed as not relying on EF, but it's clearly targeted towards it.

Has anyone tried using Dapper ORM or some other framework on the server to replace EF in conjunction with Breeze?

Are there any particular concerns or "gotchas" that I should be aware of going into this?

Joseph Gabriel
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We will have examples and server side code showing how to integrate Breeze with both NHibernate and MongoDb within the next few weeks. This should provide better examples of how to integrate any other backends, such as Dapper, with Breeze.

Per Dapper specifically, please add a request to the Breeze User Voice. We take these suggestions and the associated vote counts very seriously in determining what to work on next.

Jay Traband
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    I deleted my ill-informed answer; thank you for correcting me. If you need any assistance etc for dapper support, let me know. – Marc Gravell May 21 '13 at 16:20
  • Marc, I saw your original answer, and it made sense to me, even if wrong :). Can you relay the correction here so I understand better? – Joseph Gabriel May 21 '13 at 19:53
  • Joseph - If you'd like to accelerate integration with Dapper, shoot us an email at breeze@ideablade.com. We should be able help you with this. – Ting May 22 '13 at 01:57
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    @Joseph my misunderstanding was that I *believed* (from reading some intro pages, etc) that breeze.js was tied pretty tightly to OData and similar. If occurs, though, that dapper is still pretty far away from what breeze.js wants to do. I wonder whether Simple.Data is a better match, actually. – Marc Gravell May 22 '13 at 08:17