It is often useful to see what database queries were made during a specific request in Orchard. Bertrand takes us through this in a brief informative post

One thing that needs to be always remembered when writing NHibernate.Linq queries is that it is going to be translated into SQL eventually. What this means is that we can't do everything in our Select or Where conditions - we are restricted by the capabilities of underlying database and SQL language...

NHibernate's LINQ provider is very easy to start with and sufficient for majority of use cases, but when used in more complex scenarios it can mislead and surprise. Here is one of the pitfalls (or perhaps bugs?) I've recently run into.

There are generally three types of security in enterprise applications: 1. Role based security - Which actions can a user do - aka role-based access control 2. Entity level security - A user can only perform an Action on certain objects/data - aka row level security 3. Field level se...

Taking a look at how to use setup and configure Fluent NHibernate for usage. We will focus on how to setup your database settings as well as how to get your Fluent NHibernate mappings registered into the system.

Taking a look at how to implement the NHibernate.Burrow session management library. NHibernate.Burrow is a light weight middleware developed to support .Net applications using NHibernate by providing advanced and smart session/transaction management and other facilitates.

Compares the features of Mindscape's LightSpeed 3.0 ORM with those of LINQ to SQL and NHibernate.

Visual NHibernate makes it easier and quicker to create and maintain NHibernate projects - even very complex ones. Point it at your existing projects and start modelling them right away - visually. Visual NHibernate makes complex mapping to multiple database tables easy. Simply connect a mapping...

An opinion on why you shouldn't be using Linq2Nhibernate in production systems

Want to map your domain with DataAnnotations validation? Using Fluent NHibernate? Then take a look at how to create a simple convention!

Ayende comments on achieving database independence with NHibernate.

This is the final post in a series of three where I'm going to see how we can change the NerdDinner project to use Fluent NHibernate instead of LINQ to SQL. In this post we are going to take a look at the Nhibernate infrastructure and the dinner repository.

This is the second post in a series of three where I'm going to see how we can change the NerdDinner project to use Fluent NHibernate instead of LINQ to SQL. In this post we are going to take a look at the mappings.

This is the first post in a series of three where I'm going to see how we can change the NerdDinner project to use Fluent NHibernate instead of LINQ to SQL. In the first post we are going to take a look at the domain model.