Hello,
does any one know some graphical & generation tools for NHibernate in order to generate HBM files ** from the C# code ** ?

Thanx,
messaoud

There are templates for CodeSmith http://www.codesmith.com and MyGeneration http://www.mygenerationsoftware.com for creating hbm.xml files. I personally use the MyGeneration stuff.

They generate the hbm from the database, not the c# code though.

Not sure about the GUI, there is a great one for ActiveRecord http://altinoren.com/activewriter/ I can't remember if it was NHibernate compatible.

Regards,
Jason

Hi all,
I am new to NHibernate. I read documents, practiced something, and I think NHibernate is cool to mapping database to object. But I don't want to write mapping xml by hand because it makes mistakes easily and write too much.

http://www.codesmith.com doesn't work, maybe it is http://www.codesmithtools.com/ .

I had database and coded class. I just want mapping xml.
MyGeneration generates code from database. If I use it, I'll have to merge my old file with new generated class. It's too risk. Am I wrong ? (maybe I don't know enough about MyGeneration)
ActiveRecord is the same.

I'm reading about codesmith, maybe it's good.

Are there any other tools ?

Thanks
imagic

You can also use attributes if it's just typos you're worried about:
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/nhibernate/html/mapping-attributes.html

Oh, thank you very much.
Will it generate mapping xml file when I add some attributes ?
I'm reading this tutorial. If there are some tutorials, samples, articles... about this, please sent to me. Thanks a lot :)

Hi,
I can't make a sample code for that. Please help me.

Thanks
imagic

I came across this plug-in for visual studion 2005 today. http://sourceforge.net/projects/nhibernateaddin.

To use it you create a data connection to a database that contains the structure you are going to code against (your development database).

Next step is to add a new NHibernate plug-in item (via add new item) to your project that will contain you domain objects. In the property window add the data connection string from the data connection you just created (this isn't automated yet).

Finally you drag and drop your tables from your data connection to the NHibernate plug-in object and when saved your mapping files and you domain objects are generated.

Hope this helps.

You can also create partial classes, so you can keep generated code in one file and your stuff in the other. It's easy to modify MyGeneration and CodeSmith templates to create partial classes.

HTH, Tom