I would like to extract mapping file information to use on my form.

E.g.
<property name="reference" column="Reference" type="String" length="50"/>

I would like to extract this information so I can set my asp.net validator to only allow a maximum of 50 characters in a text box.

Something like:

FieldInfo NHibernate.GetInfo(classType, classFieldname);

would be nice.

Sorry for answering with question but how do you plan to validate more complex rules (rules that include two or more database columns)?

Here is a code snippet we use to find the "NHibernate type" of a property; you certainly can find other information about this when you navigate the IClassMetadata and related classes (any tool that has auto completion with documentation tooltips is helpful here - VisualStudio, ReSharper, ...).



Regards
Harald