They did it to reduce the number of errors found at runtime. The errors are found at compile time with orms.
Dapper is another micro-orm that's worth looking at. On 16 Sep 2016 10:40 AM, "Craig van Nieuwkerk" <crai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using something like PetaPoco makes that pretty easy. > > > >> What about the classical problem of "impedance mismatch". You have to >> carefully maintain DataSets or similar and use DataAdapter to fill them, >> then writing data back is a circus trick with the ADO.NET classes. Then >> they invented ORMs, why did they do that!? -- *GK* >> > >
