Hi,
as there is no option in Visual Studio .NET 2005 to embedd resources NHibernate fails to load my mapping files.
NHibernate looks in the Windows\System32 directory for them. If I hard copy my mapping files to the system32 directory everything works fine.
How can I assure that my mapping files are found?
This is what I wrote in my hibernate config file:

<mapping file="Customer.hbm.xml" />
<mapping file="Order.hbm.xml" />
<mapping file="OrderPosition.hbm.xml" />

Thank you very much,
theblob

You could try putting your mapping files in the App_Code folder. There is a chance this may make ASP.NET automatically embed them. You should probably however be putting your domain objects and their associated mappings in a separate assembly. VS 2005 still allows you to embed resources in class libraries.

Hi,
I have tried putting them in App_Code already. But the idea with the external assembly sounds nice since I have a class project already.
I embedded my mapping files as ressource but NHibernate still can't load them.
My class-project hast the assembly name "ModelTest", my mapping files lay in a folder "Mappings" of that Class Project. In my hibernate config xml I replaced the file mappings with <mapping assembly="ModelTest">.
I read that I could just pogrammatically add the assembly with cfg.AddAssembly(..) but is this a clever way to go?
Thank you again

Put the mapping files and the *.cs files they map to in a separate project. Then point the NHibernate configuration to load that assembly.