Use Dapper in Dotnet: step by step guide to connecting, inserting, selecting, deleting, updating, and building transactions. Dapper is a Micro ORM that is very easy to use, and doesn't require a big learning curve to get started. You should know SQL or MySQL syntax and have an existing database in order to use this guide, but its as easy as pie. Do you have queries created in MySQL Workbench or SSMS that you want to run in your app? Use them along with Dapper!