NHibernate 4.x Cookbook - Second Edition

Chapter 8. Extending NHibernate

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Creating an encrypted string type
• Creating a money type
• Using well-known instance types
• Using dependency injection with entities
• Creating an audit-event listener
• Creation and change stamping of entities
• Generating trigger-based auditing
• Implementing a soft-delete pattern
• Setting Microsoft SQL's Context_Info
• Using dynamic connection strings
• Using custom dialect functions
• Using custom functions with LINQ
• Extending the LINQ provider

Introduction

NHibernate is incredibly extensible. The recipes in this chapter demonstrate ways to extend NHibernate to accomplish common tasks such as data encryption and auditing.