Fluent NHibernate Auto-Mapping Tutorials – O/R Mappers

http://www.pnpguidance.net/post/FluentNHibernateAutoMappingTutorialsORMappers.aspx

I suspect that NHibernate will be gaining in momentum in the .NET Developer Community given that LINQ To SQL is dead and the Entity Framework received a vote of no confidence by the developer community at large. I think this is actually a good thing as most .NET Developers need to increase their exposure to non-Microsoft products.

Fluent-NHibernate – Losing Those Ugly XML Configuration Files

I believe Fluent NHibernate will actually help NHibernate gain momemtum given that it makes NHibernate more palatable for the average .NET Developer. It gets us out of XML Hell and allows us to use conventions over configurations to make it easier to map entities to database tables in NHibernate. I briefly talked about Fluent NHibernate in a few posts:

• Sample Fluent NHibernate T4 Templates for Code Generation via LINQ To SQL
• AutoPersistenceModel in Fluent NHibernate – NHibernate O/R Mapper
• Fluent NHibernate Project – NHibernate Entity Mapping Minus XML

 

James Gregory, who is on the Fluent NHibernate team, has written a number of good tutorials recently on Fluent NHibernate to help you get up to speed on using it to help map business entities to tables in your NHibernate Applications. Here is a link to James’ category on Fluent NHibernate. Check out his tutorials.

 

You can download the Fluent NHibernate Project here.

You can learn more about O/R Mappers on my personal website.