Repository Pattern without LINQ or other ORM?

Question

Does it makes sense to use the Repository pattern without the use of LINQ or some other ORM? I am writing an application in MONO and using MySQL, was thinking of using the repo

Answer 1

Repository has nothing at all to do with IQueryable. What you are thinking of is the Rob Conory .net 3.5 take on the repository pattern, which is actually more of a data broker pattern.

A repository is responsible for returning objects, and deals with data access so that the rest of your application can remain ignorant of it.

You can see a very high level description on Martin Fowlers site