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Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services wirth NHibernate

I think NHibernate is an excellent example of the vibrant open source community on .NET that I’d like to support
By Brad Abrams
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August 7, 2009 04:15 PM EDT
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I am having a blast with the series where I am updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo.  In this part, I wanted to explore one of the most popular data access solution for .NET – NHibernate.  Many customers finds that the flexibility of NHibernate makes it easier for them to build maintainable and testable applications.  As an aside, I think NHibernate is an excellent example of the vibrant open source community on .NET that I’d like to support. 

You can see the full series here.

The demo requires (all 100% free and always free):

  1. VS2008 SP1
  2. Silverlight 3 RTM
  3. .NET RIA Services July '09 Preview
  4. NHibernate (w/ NHibernate Linq ) and Fluent NHibernate

Also, download the full demo files and check out the running application.

Basically what I wanted to do was switch over my DomainService from getting its data from Entity Framework  to getting its data from NHibernate.  The rest of the application stays effectively the same.  

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To start with I grabbed the code from the previous walk through, deleted the edmx file. 

Below is the code I use to create the NHibernate SessionFactory.  The fluent interface makes it very easy to configure. 

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Brad Abrams is currently the Group Program Manager for the UI Framework and Services team at Microsoft which is responsible for delivering the developer platform that spans both client and web based applications, as well as the common services that are available to all applications. Specific technologies owned by this team include ASP.NET, Atlas and Windows Forms. He was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime, and .NET Framework teams.

Brad has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998 when he started his framework design career building the BCL (Base Class Library) that ships as a core part of the .NET Framework. He was also the lead editor on the Common Language Specification (CLS), the .NET Framework Design Guidelines, the libraries in the ECMA\ISO CLI Standard, and has been deeply involved with the WinFX and Windows Vista efforts from their beginning.

He co-authored Programming in the .NET Environment, and was editor on .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 and Vol 2 and the Framework Design Guidelines.