Category Archives: NHibernate

Persisting enumeration classes with NHibernate

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

As part of my “Crafting Wicked Domain Models” talk, I walk through the concept of enumeration classes, yanked from Java and on Jon Skeet’s list of biggest C# mistakes (or missing features). In my talk, I leave out how to … Continue reading →

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Win Free Copies of NHibernate 3 Beginner’s Guide

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Gabriel Schenker

Readers would be pleased to know that I have teamed up with Packt Publishing and we are organizing a Giveaway especially for you and three lucky winners stand a chance to win a copy of Keep reading to find out … Continue reading →

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How to map a domain model with NHibernate?

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Gabriel Schenker

Today a friend of mine ask me the following (I am para-phrasing): “I have a question regarding NHibernate and mapping. In an application we want to access the database through NHibernate from inside a WCF service, thus lazy loading is … Continue reading →

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NHibernate 3 Beginners Guide published

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Gabriel Schenker

I am very pleased to announce that my book NHibernate 3 Beginners Guide has finally been published. It is a wonderful feeling to finally have a book in my hands that cost me a couple of months of intense work. … Continue reading →

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NHibernate 3 Beginners Guide

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Gabriel Schenker

I am heading towards another mile stone in my life. Later this year my first book will be published. I have always wanted to write a book but never had a topic that is at the same time interesting for … Continue reading →

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Ditching domain models for reads

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

Last week was a tipping point for me.  We had an issue where a production service failed because NHibernate was trying to issue thousands of UPDATE calls for domain objects that we didn’t update.  It turned out that we had … Continue reading →

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New book on NHibernate

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Yesterday a new excellent book about NHibernate has been published by www.packtpub.com. (Disclosure: I have been a reviewer thus consider that when reading this post) The book is called “NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook” and can be ordered here. There is even … Continue reading →

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Analyzing historical data and playing with interactive extensions

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Introduction In my last post I showed you how we make history an explicit domain concept. This time I want to show you how we use the history of the cages to generate bills. In our Zoo each cage has … Continue reading →

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Making history explicit

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Introduction In one product of our solution we needed to record the full history of some entities. What does this mean? It means we create a history entry whenever the state of the corresponding entity changes. When doing this there … Continue reading →

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Ad-hoc mapping with NHibernate

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

In my recent adventures with massive bulk processing, there are some times when I want to pull bulk loaded tables from SQL, but don’t want to go through all the trouble of building a mapping in NHibernate.  For example, one … Continue reading →

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