NHibernate 4.x Cookbook - Second Edition

Chapter 3. Sessions and Transactions

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• 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
• Save entities to the database
• Using session.Merge
• Using session.Refresh
• Handle concurrency using session.Lock
• Using dictionaries as entities
• Using NHibernate with transaction scope

Introduction

NHibernate leaves session and transaction management up to the application. There are a number of different ways to manage sessions and transactions, and they depend greatly on the specific application architecture. In addition to a few interesting session methods, the recipes in this chapter show how to handle sessions ...