This is an issue as old as the Repository pattern itself. The recent introduction of LINQ's IQueryable a uniform representation of a query, has caused a lot of discussion about this very topic.
I actually disagree slightly with Bryan's post. I think he's right, that ultimately everything is very unique and so on. But at the same time, most of that comes out as you design, and I find that getting a generic repository up and using it while developing my model, I can get an app up very quickly, then refactor to greater specificity as I find the need to do so.
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