[anton_gogolev]

Exhibit A: Yet another proof for having three obligatory pieces of software for every beginning programmer: an ORM, a blog engine and a CMS.

On a more serious note, FluentData is a wheel reinvented, square. PetaPoco anyone?

[atwebb]

There are several micros (I'm sure you know) but I love the micro, micro approach of Peta. I'll admit that up until recently, I've always setup my own classes with data myself. Looking back on projects, it actually hasn't been that bad. These are medium sized applications and, yes, setting up properties is super annoying and can take a while but, in retrospect, it hasn't cost me that much really, I don't see how I could save more than a few hours with an ORM and I have 100% control over my database interactions, code separation, complete knowledge about exactly what it is doing, and a fast application.

I like Peta because it's the smallest most minimal ORM I've found. I can grasp most of what it's doing after little work with it and it's fast enough for me though I'm definitely not pushing it too hard.

[the_rara_avis]

After using Dapper and Massive, I have settled on PetaPoco. I've used it in multiple deployed data access layers now and have no major complaints.