Quick start

MrPMorris · **Joined:** Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:21 am **Posts:** 2

Hi all

I'm used to using another OPF framework but enjoy learning new stuff so I thought I'd look a NHibernate in more detail.

Which document would you recommend to help me to quickly get a class persisting to a DB so that I can get an idea of how everything is put together? I started following one that looked promising but it doesn't run

http://www.devsource.com/c/a/Techniques ... bernate/1/

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Could not compile the mapping document: NHibernateTest.BusinessClasses.Person.hbm.xml
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Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<hibernate-mapping xmlns="urn:nhibernate-mapping-2.0">
  <class
    name="NHibernateTest.BusinessClasses.Person, NHibernateTest.BusinessClasses"
    table="Person">
    <id name="ID" type="String" length="10">
      <generator class="assigned"/>
    </id>
    <property name="Salutation" type="String" length="10"/>
    <property name="GivenName" type="String" length="64"/>
    <property name="FamilyName" type="String" length="64"/>
  </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

namespace NHibernateTest.BusinessClasses
{
   public class Person
   {
      public string ID { get; set; }
      public string GivenName { get; set; }
      public string FamilyName { get; set; }
      public string Salutation { get; set; }
      public string FullName
      {
         get { return Salutation + " " + GivenName + " " + FamilyName; }
      }
   }
}

Regards

Pete

archeg · **Joined:** Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:12 pm **Posts:** 6

You could look on http://www.summerofnhibernate.com/. There are some screencasts to view. It`s really cool to learn (or just look on it) by video :)

If there are some exceptions in compiling, u should look into InnerException for details. Could u post it?

a.pawi · **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:29 am

Hi,

on the first look, try to declare your Properties as virtual. NHibernate wants it this way.

Have you marked the hbm as embedded resource?

Like archeg said http://www.summerofnhibernate.com/ is the best way to get started to NHibernate. Stephen Bohlen did a great job with this screencasts.

Regards