NHibernate Essentials

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

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Overview/Description
NHibernate is an open-source object relational mapper for the Microsoft .NET platform. It makes it easy to retrieve data from relational databases and store them in objects. In this course, you’ll be introduced to NHibernate, find out how to set up a project to use NHibernate, and use NHibernate to create various types of mappings to retrieve data from a relational database.

Target Audience
Developers with an intermediate level of understanding of C# programming

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

NHibernate Essentials

start the course

describe NHibernate and where it fits into the software development stack

set up an IDE, tools, and drivers for using NHibernate

import a database and reference NHibernate in a project

create a configuration file for connecting to a database

configure NHibernate using an existing App.Config file

configure NHibernate without XML

configure NHibernate using the fluent interface

create mapping to retrieve data from a table

create mappings to a class that retrieves data from tables with a one-to-many relationship

add an assembly containing mappings to the configuration

use mapping attributes as an alternative to the XML-based table approach to class mapping

configure mappings using the fluent interface

create class mappings using NHibernate's interface

map classes by convention

retrieve data with SQL queries

retrieve data with HQL queries

retrieve data with structured queries

retrieve data with QueryOver queries

filter data with LINQ queries

group, sort, and restrict the number of records returned by query operations

save new data and update existing data

save a hierarchy of data to the database

delete records from a table

update and delete more than one record at a time using HQL queries

commit or roll back operations using transactions

configure a database and create a playlist

Course Number:
sd_nhib_a01_it_enus

Expertise Level
Beginner