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NHibernate 4.x Cookbook

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 (17) Chapters

NHibernate 4.x Cookbook Second Edition

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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

Chapter 2. Models and Mappings

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Mapping a class with XML
Creating class hierarchy mappings
Creating class components
Mapping a one-to-many relationship
Mapping a many-to-many relationship
Mapping collections of elements and components
Setting up a base entity class
Handling versioning and concurrency
Mapping by code
Mapping by convention
Creating mappings fluently
Bidirectional one-to-many class relationships
Mappings enumerations
Immutable entities
Mapping relations to non-primary keys
Using lazy properties
Mapping joins
Using calculated properties
Using serializable values
Dynamic components
Mapping <subselect>

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Authors (4)

Liljas

Liljas

Gunnar Liljas is a software architect with more than 20 years' experience in developing and designing web-based solutions. His focus has been on data-driven content publishing, not only for the Web, but also for automated and on-demand print publishing. Currently, he spends most of his waking hours at the Swedish CRM supplier Revide, where he uses tools such as NHibernate and Redis to create targeted emails, text messages, and campaign web sites based on massive data sources. He's also one of the lead contributors to the NHibernate open source project. In his spare time, Gunnar sings in two classical choirs and often performs with the renowned Norrkping Symphony Orchestra.

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Darshan Joshi

Darshan Joshi

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Zaytsev

Zaytsev

Alexander Zaytsev discovered his passion for IT when he was a small kid, and since then he has dedicated his life to becoming an excellent software developer. Alexander has many years' experience in the IT field, analyzing, designing, and developing .NET-based enterprise applications, using cutting-edge technologies. He works as an independent consultant in the .NET space, providing technical expertise to all kinds of software development companies. He is an active member of open source and local development communities, and writes a blog at http://alexzaytsev.me. He is one of the main contributors to the NHibernate project, and one of the few people who really know the NHibernate internals. He is adept in Agile software development, and he believes that Agile practices such as test-driven development, pair programming, automated testing, continuous integration, and deployment are the keys to quality software. He lives in Auckland with his wife, Olga, and son, Stepan. In his spare time, he loves spending time with his family, cycling, and doing coding just for fun.

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Jason Dentler

Jason Dentler

Jason Dentler grew up in the small Texas town of Mission Valley. He started tinkering with computers as a kid in the late 1980s, and all these years later, he hasn't stopped. He's worked in a few different industries. Currently, he builds really awesome software in higher education. He's an Eagle Scout and a graduate of the University of Houston – Victoria.

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