Hello everybody,

for my internal logging system I'm heavily using the reflection methods to gather the updated property values. Unfortunately when it comes across to an object that has as property another NHibernated-object (e.g. via <many-to-one>) my procedure fails because it is usually a proxy.

Therefore: Is there some way I can force a proxy to return the "real" object or at least the id-value of it?

There is (at least should be) no way to get the real object. To get the ID you can use ISession.GetIdentifier() or just access the identifier property of the proxy.

Are you using reflection to read private field values? If you read the public, mapped properties instead of private fields, it should make no difference whether you're doing so on a proxy or not. If you are concerned with initializing proxies unnecessarily, you can check if the object is an uninitialized proxy, and if so, you can assume that no properties are modified (otherwise the proxy would have initialized itself when a property value was set).