I'm not implying anything by this thread's title...but just assume, for a moment, hypothetically of course, that a book were in the works for using NHibernate with ASP.NET...

A short sampling of topics would include the basics of NHibernate, unit testings, generics, open-session-in-view, supervising controller (model-view-presenter), multiple databases, logging with interceptors, web services, etc.

1) Would this interest you?

2) Would you be equally or more interested in NHibernate with .NET 3.0?

3) What other topics or areas of difficulty would you want covered? Personalization, membership, web parts, etc?

Thanks for any feedback you can provide,
Billy McCafferty

That would definately be nice to have a book on the subject.

I'd buy it for sure.

This definitely is a great idea. I'd like to see a reasonably complex example in the book which put all the technologies mentioned together, not just reorganizaton of articles you wrote before. By the way, the articles are great. Have a look at ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution by Marco Bellinaso. It demonstrated how a technical book should be written.

Come on, Billy. You can do it. We have seen your talents of technical writing from your articles.

Thanks for the suggestion (and the vote of confidence)! I agree there should be a strong focus on "putting it altogether." All too often I'm left with the "now how's this all fit together" feeling after I get through a book. And although I haven't read it yet, I'll take a look at the text you've suggested.

Billy

Yes, I would buy it too. In fact, believe it or not, I was thinking today myself, about how cool it would be to have a book or a a set of articles/blog on NHibernate+ASP.NET.

The ideal book for *ME* would basically identify all the important tasks/problems encountered in web development (say, long running transactions, tracking user information - page hits, session etc), and then walk through how to solve all these issues using NHibernate.

Cheers!

Those are some good ideas. On a related note, what type of book flow works best for you? An assortment of design ideas such as Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture or Domain Driven Design; a start to finish application-building book such as Agile Web Development with Rails or ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming; or somewhere in between like Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns?

Billy

Billy,

I prefer books like GOF, Patterns of Enterprise Application Arch, Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .NET - i.e, assortment of design ideas over start to finish approach.

This way the chapters are not inter-related and it allows for maximum flexibility is picking a specific thing to read based on what I need to do.

My $0.02

Billy,

While I am thinking about this...

I have been using NHibernate for the past 2-3 months. It has really speeded up our development. Based on my (little) experience, I'd say the book could include information on following topics:

(from my previous post in this thread)
* Long running transactions
* Tracking user data in web environment (page hits, specific user actions)

(new)
* Best practices on how and where to store business logic with NHibernate
* Where and How to do Object validation (IValidatable can be called multiple times so it doesn't cut. Another option could be in each Properties SET. I am doing it in OnSave() and OnUpdate() callbacks using ILifecycle interface)
* Where to open and close Session? (from a number of other posts on this forum)
* Best practices on storing DateCreated, DateUpdated fields etc (from one of my other posts on the forum)

Desiguy