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title: "What is a repository?"  
description: "What is a repository?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2013-10-14  
updated: 2020-09-22  
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# What is a repository?

**A Repository** is a type of class that hides the actual data storage mechanism from the rest of the application.A Repository, which "lives" in the Model layer, "behave as an in-memory collection of domain objects", and is instanced inside the ViewModel.

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

**A Repository** is a type of class that hides the actual data storage mechanism from the rest of the application.A Repository, which "lives" in the Model layer, "behave as an in-memory collection of domain objects", and is instanced inside the ViewModel.


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