Need of an ORM(Object-relational mapping) ?

Good question Akiii,

There are many benefits of ORM and I will try to list couple of them.

1. ORM means less code you need to write as ORM does most of the work for you in order to deal with the databases
2. Increase your productivity as you will not write boring DAL code but focus on writing real business related code
3. Time tested and reliable code you can trust on (much better code than any average developer can write)
4. Many of them have in-built caching mechanism for better performance

I am sure there are many but I guess this is enough to believe that it is good to use ORM.

Thanks

Regards,
Sheo Narayan
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Hi SheoNarayan Sir,
Thanks for giving me some points. Can you tell me sir, is it good to use dataset/datareader in current scenario or is it the new age of ORM's ?

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Akiii

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And also please tell which ORM is the best to use ?
I have used ADON.NET ENTITY FRAMEWORK, LINQ TO SQL and NHIBERNATE ...?

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Akiii

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