Model layer – Model is shared between Application and Web layer. Application layer returns data in Model objects to the Web layer; Web layer - This uses MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern and holds ...

With repository design pattern, the previous diagram will change to the following diagram: All these operations (i.e. CRUD operations) are wrapped by the Employee Repository. The Employee Repository ...

However, it’s just another anti pattern and is used frequently with Entity Framework to abstract calls to the data access layer. In my opinion, using a generic repository is generalization too far.