Simple example on how to use Dapper.
Full article can be found at http://blog.takaloy.uk/getting-started-with-dapper/ Second article on multi object retrieval found at http://blog.takaloy.uk/dapper-multi-object-dependencies/
You'll need visual studio to go through this example. I'd recommend that you use visual studio community edition, which can be found here.
The project uses two main nuget packages, Dapper dot net and Sqlite.
Drop me a comment at http://blog.takaloy.uk/ .