MicroLite is a small lightweight or "micro" object relational mapping (ORM) framework written in C# for the Microsoft .NET framework. Its purpose is to provide a flexible and powerful feature set whilst maintaining a simple and concise API.

Headline Features

• It only references the .NET base class libraries (no dependencies outside the .NET framework itself).
• Extensions to allow MicroLite log messages to be logged via log4net or NLog
• Extension support to quickly develop applications using ASP.NET MVC and WebApi
• Native support for Enum, Uri, and XDocument properties on mapped classes
• An extensible pipeline which allows 'plugging in' custom Type Converters or Session Listeners
• Easily managed by IOC containers
• Fluent configuration API
• Fluent SQL Builder which makes it easier to create more complex queries
• Interface based API which makes unit testing easy

The NuGet Package contains binaries compiled against:

• .NET 3.5 (Client Profile)
• .NET 4.0 (Client Profile)
• .NET 4.5

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or newer
• MySql 5.5 or newer
• SQLite 3.7 or newer
• PostgreSQL 9.2 or newer
• Firebird 2.5 or newer
• SQL Server Compact Edition 4.0 or newer

To find out more, head over to the Getting Started guide on the wiki and see how easy it is to use!