Hibernate version: 1.04

I'm aware that there have been people who have encountered the "The dialect was not set. Set the property hibernate.dialect" in ASP.NET projects.

In my case we've encountered this problem in a Windows Forms application using a modified MVP approach:



The bad thing is this happens in the Design View of our UI -- what I did was to simply move from Code View to Design View. To be able to add elements to the designer (ever tried doing WinUI over code? not pretty, unlike in ASP.NET) we need to comment out other objects that have even the remotest dependency to NHibernate.

I've tried:

1. adding an app.config file to contain the hibernate.dialect definition
2. adding hibernate.cfg.xml to the project and setting its compile action to copy to output directory, a solution I tried after I found here: http://forums.visual-paradigm.com/posts/list/1785.html

Needless to say, neither solution worked.

Any ideas?

It looks like the constructor of the form does something that causes NHibernate to configure itself at design time (like building the SessionFactory). Try moving the code that configures NHibernate to the application startup and make sure the SessionFactory is only build once when running the application.

I know, and I have peppered the constructors and the Load events with if (!DesignMode) {} constructs but to no avail. Not sure what else I need to do.