1.6. Wrap Up

I hope you have enjoyed this short introduction to NHibernate. There are many other features that were beyond the scope of this Wrox Blox, but I hope that this has given you enough of a taste that you will find the time to investigate and start using NHibernate in your applications.

You should now be comfortable with all of the following:

  • Setting up and configuring NHibernate via the configuration file and configuration classes

  • Mapping your business objects to the database tables via NHibernate's mapping files

  • The ISessionFactory, ISession, and ITransaction interfaces

  • The Criteria API and the basics of HQL

  • Using the Session-Per-Request pattern

  • Using the Unit of Work pattern with NHibernate

  • Using Lazy Loading

  • Working with NHibernate's support ...

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