I would like NHibernate to be able to load types with partial name assemblies. It seems that I have to provide the full name in my class declarations in the hbm.xmls.

NH uses the following method to load my class:

public static System.Type ClassForName( string name )
{
return System.Type.GetType( name, true );
}

Although the documentation says that Type.GetType also would load an assembly from a partial name, it doesn't work for me. Does any one knows of an issue here? Does it have really have to be the full assembly name or is the another way around it?


thanks,
Pedro

Yes, you must provide full names...
You can not use partial names because Type.GetType() will search them in the ExecutingAssembly (which is NHibernate.dll, not your assembly)

If you're using 0.8 you can specify a default namespace and assembly for all classes in the mapping file:

http://nhibernate.sourceforge.net/nh-do ... on-mapping

Mike