Book Description
Get solutions to common NHibernate problems to develop high-quality performance-critical data access applications
Master the full range of NHibernate features
Reduce hours of application development time and get better application architecture and performance
Create, maintain, and update your database structure automatically with the help of NHibernate
Written and tested for NHibernate 3.0 with input from the development team distilled in to easily accessible concepts and examples
Part of Packt's Cookbook series: each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible
In Detail
NHibernate is an innovative, flexible, scalable, and feature-complete open source project for data access. Although it sounds like an easy task to build and maintain database applications, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and develop applications that meet your needs perfectly.
The NHibernate Cookbook explains each feature of NHibernate 3.0 in detail through example recipes that you can quickly apply to your applications. Set yourself free from stored procedures and inline SQL. Quite simply, if you build .NET applications that use databases, this book is for you.
The book will take you from the absolute basics of NHibernate through its most advanced features and beyond, showing you how to take full advantage of each concept to quickly create amazing database applications.Beginners will learn several techniques for each of the 4 core NHibernate tasks – mapping, configuration, session & transaction management, and querying – and which techniques fit best with various types of applications. In short, you will be able to build an application using NHibernate.Intermediate level readers will learn how to best implement enterprise application architecture patterns using NHibernate, leading to clean, easy-to-understand code, and increased productivity. In addition to new v3.0 features, advanced readers will learn creative ways to extend NHibernate core, as well as techniques using the NHibernate search, shards, spatial, and validation projects.
Get solutions to common NHibernate problems to develop high-quality performance-critical data access applications
Table of Contents
- NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- Preface
- 1. Models and Mappings
- Introduction
- Mapping a class with XML
- Creating class hierarchy mappings
- Mapping a one-to-many relationship
- Setting up a base entity class
- Handling versioning and concurrency
- Creating mappings fluently
- Mapping with ConfORM
- Bidirectional one-to-many class relationships
- Mappings enumerations
- Creating class components
- 2. Configuration and Schema
- Introduction
- Configuring NHibernate with App.config
- Configuring NHibernate with hibernate.cfg.xml
- Configuring NHibernate with code
- Configuring NHibernate with Fluent NHibernate
- Configuring NHibernate using ConfORM Mappings
- Configuring NHibernate logging
- Reducing application startup time
- Generating the database
- Scripting the database
- Using NHibernate Schema Tool
- 3. Sessions and Transactions
- Introduction
- Setting up session per web request
- Setting up session per presenter
- Creating a session ASP.NET MVC action filter
- Creating a Transaction ASP.NET MVC action filter
- Using the Conversation per Business Transaction pattern
- Using session.Merge
- Using session.Refresh
- Using stateless sessions
- Using dictionaries as entities
- Using NHibernate with TransactionScope
- 4. Queries
- Introduction
- Using Criteria Queries
- Using QueryOver
- Using QueryOver projections and aggregates
- Using MultiCriteria
- Using the Hibernate Query Language
- Using MultiQuery
- Using Named Queries
- Using Futures
- Eager loading child collections
- Using LINQ to NHibernate
- Using Detached Queries
- Using HQL for bulk data changes
- 5. Testing
- 6. Data Access Layer
- 7. Extending NHibernate
- 8. NHibernate Contribution Projects
- A. Menu
- Index