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I am new to ASP.NET mvc. Is there a good alternative for entity framework in for MVC?

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    Alternative that does what exactly? – Oded Dec 25 '11 at 15:43
  • ASP.NET MVC doesn't care about which ORM you choose, or if you do choose an ORM or do Micro ORMS, or plain old DataSets, hence I think this is a possible duplicate of [.net ORM Comparison](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5101974/net-orm-comparison) – flq Dec 25 '11 at 15:48
  • .NET ORMs: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1377236/nhibernate-entity-framework-active-records-or-linq2sql/ – Michael Maddox Dec 26 '11 at 11:35

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You can use any ORM you want with MVC.

A popular choice is nHibernate, though there are many many more.

Other popular alternatives (some commercial) are:

StackOverflow uses their own in-house (now open sourced), micro-ORM, Dapper.

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  • can you list a few, for example what do the stackoverflow use? – hackp0int Dec 25 '11 at 15:45
  • I am converting my website from asp.net to mvc. should i use an ORM at all, or should i just work directly with the DB? – uriz Dec 25 '11 at 16:08
  • @user563823 - Only you can answer that. ORMs are an abstraction over databases, whether you need one or not is your decision. – Oded Dec 25 '11 at 16:25
  • on the one hand, i like to have full control over my DB and on the other hand, I don't want to duplicate the data scheme and maintain data consistency between the DB and the model. How can i combine them – uriz Dec 25 '11 at 16:37