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Why is the Repository pattern needed in NHibernate?

I am reading the official Your first NHibernate based application. While the tutorial is good and easy to follow, I am wondering why the Repository pattern is used. In the various Add, Update, ...
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EF vs. NHibernate [closed]

In the past 2 years since I started writing business applications (before I did either high level front end or very low level systems programming), learned datasets, linq to sql, and now entity ...
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Is it ok to call external services or database inside the entity

I have "logic engine" which executes set of user configured steps. These steps are saved in the database as "Step" entities. The engine gets the first step and then executes steps until there are no ...
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Abstraction Layer over ORM Generated Entities

I am learning LINQ to SQL (and planning to learn Entity Framework). Initially I used a abstraction layer to convert LINQ to SQL entities into a domain objects. Later I discovered the “Inheritance ...
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What is the benefit of using sharp architecture?

I'm working in a project that use nhibernate as orm. Is there any benefit for me to use sharp architecture? what is these benefits?
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.NET software design and Oracle ODP.NET UDT

I'm working on a new common .NET software design (mainly) for WCF-based web service applications with related client frontends (all written in C#). As far I've chosen some frameworks ...