T4, Dapper, CRUD and you

This course will be a very light dive into the world of code generation and micro ORM libraries focusing on the Dapper micro ORM used (and created by) the folks who gave us StackOverflow. We'll start with a brief introduction into the T4 functionality introduced into Visual Studio 2010 and now widely used by most of the development teams at Microsoft (in particular the Entity Framework and ASP.NET MVC teams) presuming no prior knowledge of T4. From there we will talk briefly about the necessity to follow pattern programming, in particular the usefuleness of the Repository pattern and dependency injection. From there we'll perform a brief survey of micro ORM libraries ending with an introduction to Dapper. To wrap up, we'll put together a useful web site that will start with File | New and end with a functional Web API for a simple task management system.