NHibernate 0.8.3
win2k
.Net 1.1

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Before I started using lazy loading, I would check for the existence of a relationship via a statement similar to the following:


However, with lazy-loading, the Parent property is never null (it's an instance of the proxy class), and so my code thinks the Parent object exists, but when accessing the properties of the Parent object, I get an exception.

Is there a way to confirm the actual existence of a proxied object? I'd really like to take advantage of proxies, but I have a slew of nullable many-to-one and one-to-one relationships.

Thanks!
-Tyler Burd

With Proxies, the Parent property should also be null if there is no Parent.

The problem with the exception when accessing a property of the Parent indicates that you might have forgotten to make the properties virtual.