Hi, I need a little help in using named queries..

I have defined a query in mapping file, outside the main class.

<sql-query name="DeleteQuery">
<![CData[Delete From testcust t Where t.Emp_ID = ?]]>
<return alias="t" class="testcust"/>
</sql-query>

and refer it in main class named : NHibernateEx.testcust

<class="NHibernateEx.testcust" namespace=blaa blaa/>
....
<loader query-ref = "DeleteQuery"/>
...
</class>


then i used that named query in my coding.

mySession.GetNamedQuery("DeleteQuery")

When compile, it gives an error: unknown class testcust

How to solve this error? Or what is the correct way to do this task?
Waiting for ur replies..
Regards.
Ovais

Have you defined the correct namespace and assembly name in the surrounding hibernate-mapping tag:

<hibernate-mapping xmlns="urn:nhibernate-mapping-2.2" namespace="x.y.z" assembly="MyAssembly">

You have to at least specifiy the assembly and then you can use the fqn in the query, e.g. x.y.z.testcase.