Multiple or Single Repositories with LINQ?

Other factors to consider include the likely lifespan of the product and the likelihood of having to change from LINQ-to-SQL to some other O/R mapper at any point in the lifetime. The smaller the project, the less critical the product, the less you need to worry about abstracting minutae to the nth degree.

Your problem description is a typical textbook example of when too much blabla about 'this is good, that's bad' becomes the reason why a developer creates the software the way it's created instead of looking at the problem at hand and create software to fix that problem.

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