Hi everybody;

I'm using Nhibernate with visual studio 2005 express edition as an IDE. Nhibernate could not find the hbm files as i didn't manage to embed them in the assembly.

All the posts in the intrent propose the use of the embed resource property of the file witch unfortunately i don't have in my IDE.

Thanks in advance for your response please help me it's an emergency.
If it's possible be exhaustive in your answers and many thanks.

NB : I'm not considering ordering the pro version :) so one solution already eliminated !!

A couple of thoughts:

I'm not experienced with .NET 2.0, but it might be that there are options for embedding files from the command line compiler that aren't available in the IDE. Not very convenient, but the option may still be there.

If not, you still have lots of options within NH. The recommended method is adding all the mappings in an assembly using AddAssembly(), but NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration has about 10 other methods for loading hbm.xml from streams or files. Check out AddFile() and AddDirectory(), they should be able to help you if you can't embed a resource.

Hello,

Although I'm not familiar with VS Express, I would be very, very surprised if you wouldn't be able to embed resource files in your application.

Please check it once again:
- select your hibernate mapping file in the solution explorer
- go to the properties
- open the combo of the property Build Action -> you should see here the option "Embedded resource". That's the one you need.