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You're reading from NHibernate 4.x Cookbook Over 90 incredible and powerful recipes to help you efficiently use NHibernate in your application

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781784396428

Length 448 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

NHibernate

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (4):

Liljas

Darshan Joshi

Zaytsev

Jason Dentler

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. The Configuration and Schema FREE CHAPTER

2. Models and Mappings

3. Sessions and Transactions

4. Queries

5. Improving Performance

6. Testing

7. Data Access Layer

8. Extending NHibernate

9. NHibernate Contribution Projects

Index

Creating mappings fluently

Even before NHibernate added the possibility to provide mappings in code, the Fluent NHibernate project (FNH) delivered a strongly-typed, fluent syntax, as an alternative to XML mappings. It remains very popular and many NHibernate articles online show examples using FNH mappings. In this recipe, we will show you how to map our product model using Fluent NHibernate.

Getting ready

Complete the Getting ready instructions at the beginning of this chapter.

How to do it…

Add a new folder named MappingWithFluent to the MappingRecipes project.
Add a reference to the FluentNHibernate package using Nuget package manager console.

Create a new class named ProductMap with the following code:

using NH4CookbookHelpers.Mapping.Model;
using FluentNHibernate.Mapping;


namespace MappingRecipes.MappingWithFluent
{
 public class ProductMap : ClassMap<Product>
 {
  public ProductMap()
  {
   Id(p => p.Id).GeneratedBy.GuidComb();
   Version(x => x.Version);
   NaturalId().Property...