At long last (5 months!), I've NHibernate Query Analyzer just the way I want it. This release feature the following goodies:

* Code that I would own up to , seriously, the old codebase was a horror, this one has promise.
* Plenty of tests (which doesn't cover the GUI, though. This is a pretty important thing for a front end application).
* Lots of UI enhancements - check out the flash demo and you'll get a feeling about what I'm talking about! The object graph view is actually a graph (and with pretty colors, too ).
* The ability to view the results from an HQL query in both tabular and object graph formats.
* Support for lazy collections.
* On the fly error checking for HQL statements.
* Support for parametrized queries.
* Smart error checking for schema violations and helpful messages about how to fix them.
* The editors for configuration and mapping files are both more pleasing to the eye and much better in regard to such things as accurate error reporting.
* The editors will try to help you when they know what kind of information you should input to the class.
* Using NHiberante 0.8.4, the latest released package.

Some of the things that you won't see directly unless you mess with the code:

* The ability to add very easily new XML types for editing, as long as they have an XML Schema.

Project page:
http://www.ayende.com/projects/nhiberan ... lyzer.aspx

Flash Demo:
http://www.ayende.com/projects/nhiberan ... -demo.aspx

One thing to notice, there seems to be a problem with Berlios' subversion server, I can't access them for the last five hours or so.

I would appreciate any input,



Thanks in advance,

Ayende Rahien

Hi

I've tried your tool - I think it _colud_ be VERY helpfull but it's still too hard to use... Maybe I am too dumb for that, but making a first query working took me about 2 hours :)
I remember the previous version (0.7), I used it to learn first HQL queries - configuration was not easy (much harder than now) but still worth it. So don't misunderstand me - I love the idea of query analyzer and I am very happy for that it is growing ;) Keep up a good work!

Now some concretes (two which were most disturbing during my try) :
- I cannot save configuration file by save as... (result is an empty xml file or IO.Exception "file is busy") - workaround: switch to xml tab, copy and paste into notepad
- When trying to drill-down lazy "list" collection in object graph I get null-reference exception (no workaround)

regards

I'm checking on the problems, thanks for letting me know.

I was thinking about helping out in your development, partly because I want to know nhibernate more, but the other reason is that there are not very many tools like this out there. It definitely needs some work, because I have yet to successfully import my mappings and dll's and get it to work, but it's probably because I don't know how to use it properly.

When I create a new project, do I add the mapping files only? do I add the dll's where those objects exist? Also, how do I managed the datasource from which it reads? Changing the connection string & provider in the app.config crashes the program.