Dapper QueryBuilder Query Builder

Dapper Query Builder library allows you to build your SQL queries dynamically. In Dapper, you can get all the records from any table as shown in the below example.

private static List<Author> GetAuthors()
{
    using (IDbConnection connection = new SqlConnection(ConnectionString))
    {
        var authors = connection.Query<Author>("SELECT * FROM Authors;").ToList();
        
        return authors;
    }
}

Now the following example builds a simple SELECT query to retrieve all the authors from the database using the Dapper Query Builder.

private static List<Author> GetAuthors()
{
    using (IDbConnection connection = new SqlConnection(ConnectionString))
    {
        var builder = connection.QueryBuilder($@"SELECT * FROM Authors;");

        var authors = builder.Query<Author>().ToList();
        return authors;
    }
}

You can also build the SQL query containing the WHERE clause, as shown below.

private static Author GetAuthor(int id)
{
    using (IDbConnection connection = new SqlConnection(ConnectionString))
    {
        var builder = connection.QueryBuilder($@"SELECT * FROM Authors WHERE Id = {id};");

        var author = builder.Query<Author>().FirstOrDefault();

        return author;
    }
}