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One of the common design patterns in enterprise software development which allows one to maintain a list of objects affected by a business transaction and coordinates the writing out of changes and the resolution of concurrency problems.

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Generic Repository With EF 4.1 what is the point

As i dig deeper in to the DbContext, DbSet and associated interfaces, I am wondering why you would need to implement a separate "Generic" Repository around these implementations? It looks like DbContext and IDbSet do everything you need and include…
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How to implement Unit Of Work pattern with Dapper?

Currently, I am trying to use Dapper ORM with Unit Of Work + Repository Pattern. I want to use Unit of Work as opposed to a simple dapper Repository due to the fact that my insert and updates require a degree of transaction processing. I have been…
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Unit of Work + Repository Pattern: The Fall of the Business Transaction Concept

Combining Unit of Work and Repository Pattern is something used fairly widely nowadays. As Martin Fowler says a purpose of using UoW is to form a Business Transaction while being ignorant of how repositories actually work (being persistent…
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Entity Framework 6 Code First - Is Repository Implementation a Good One?

I am about to implement an Entity Framework 6 design with a repository and unit of work. There are so many articles around and I'm not sure what the best advice is: For example I realy like the pattern implemented here: for the reasons suggested in…
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Dependency injection in unit of work pattern using repositories

I want to create a unit of work class that wraps around repositories in a similar way to this. The problem I'm having is trying to implement dependency injection by replacing the generic repositories in the example with an IRepository interface. In…
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Benefit of using Unit of Work and Repository Patterns with Entity Framework

According to MSDN, DbContext is defined as: Represents a combination of the Unit-Of-Work and Repository patterns and enables you to query a database and group together changes that will then be written back to the store as a unit. Since…
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Singleton Per Call Context (Web Request) in Unity

A few days ago, I had an issue with ASP.Net threading. I wanted to have a singleton object per web request. I actually need this for my unit of work. I wanted to instantiate a unit of work per web request so that identity map is valid through out…
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Repository and Unit of Work patterns - How to save changes

I'm struggling to understand the relationship between the Repository and Unit of Work patterns despite this kind of question being asked so many times. Essentially I still don't understand which part would save/commit data changes - the repository…
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Tracking model changes in SQLAlchemy

I want to log every action what will be done with some SQLAlchemy-Models. So, I have a after_insert, after_delete and before_update hooks, where I will save previous and current representation of model, def keep_logs(cls): …
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Register partically closed generic type with Autofac

I have UnitofWork class and it implement IUnitOfWork. I try to register that with Autofac: var builder = new ContainerBuilder(); builder .RegisterGeneric(typeof(UnitOfWork,>)) .As(typeof(IUnitOfWork)) …
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ASP.NET Identity with Repository and Unit of Work

I'm learning Repository and Unit of Work patterns in ASP.NET MVC 5 application with Entity Framework 6. I had already read a lot of tutorials and articles, but almost all of them are condradictory. Ones say that Repository and Unit of Work patterns…
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Entity Framework 6 and Unit Of Work... Where, When? Is it like transactions in ado.net?

Creating a new MVC project and like the idea of repositories in the data layer, so i have implemented them. I have also created a Service layer to handle all business logic and validation, this layer in turn uses the appropriate repository. …
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Is Unit Of Work and Repository Patterns very useful for big projects?

I'm starting a new web project using ASP.NET Webforms + EF4. I'm trying to apply a repository pattern with a unit of work pattern following this tutorial :…
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Avoid Unit of Work pattern in domain driven design

I have read this and it makes me think twice...: "Avoid unit of work pattern. Aggregate roots should define transaction boundaries." Why should someone avoid the UOW pattern applying domain driven design?
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Is UnitOfWork equals Transaction? Or it is more than that?

The internet is full of information about UnitOfWork pattern; even SO is not an exception. I still do not understand something about it. In my understanding UnitOfWork = Transaction in DB. Thats all; nothing more, nothing less. Is this correct? My…
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