To build a complete desktop application using Windows Presentation Foundation or WinForms, first choose a mapping method from the following list of recipes:

1.1 Mapping a class with XML

1.7 Creating mappings fluently

1.8 Mapping with ConfORM

Choose a configuration method from the following recipes:

2.1 Configuring NHibernate with App.config

2.2 Configuring NHibernate with hibernate.cfg.xml

2.3 Configuring NHibernate with code

2.4 Configuring NHibernate with Fluent NHibernate

Create your database from the following recipes:

2.8 Generating the database

2.9 Scripting the database

2.10 Using NHibernate Schema Tool

Choose a session management method from the following two recipes:

3.2 Setting up session-per-presenter

3.5 Using the Conversation-per-Business transaction pattern

Choose a query method from the following recipes:

4.1 Using Criteria Queries

4.2 Using QueryOver

4.5 Using the Hibernate Query Language

4.7 Using Named Queries

4.10 Using LINQ to NHibernate

Choose a data access layer style from the following recipes:

6.1 Transaction Auto-wrapping for the data access layer (Data Access Objects)

6.2 Setting up an NHibernate repository

Finally, build your application on top of this data access layer.