I am newbie C# developer. When I just have started to learn programming thins were pretty simple, you see the problem, you develop solution, test it and it works, that simple.
Then you find out the design patterns and the whole abstraction thing, and you begin to spend more time on the code that yields no results, always tiring to protect code from possible changes in future. More time less result.
Sorry for the boring introduction, but I just trying to show how frustrated I am now.
There is a bunch of data-access technologies provided by Microsoft itself, and even larger bunch of technologies provided by third-party companies.
I don’t have team leader or neighbor super skilled programmer friend, so I have to ask an advice from you.
How do you realize the data access in your real applications written in C#?
From a very overall perspective, I always hide and data access implementation details behind an interface, like this:
The .NET framework offers a lot of different ways to access data, so I can understand that you are confused. However, at this time, there are only really two or three reasonable options for accessing relational databases: