NHibernate with ASP.NET Problem Design Solution / Wrox Briefs (ePub)

This Wrox Blox demonstrates how to start using NHibernate in line
business applications using ASP.NET and VB.NET. Using NHibernate
will speed up your application development by removing the need to
build your own Data Access Layer (DAL). In addition, you can focus
solely on the business problem instead of the infrastructure
concerns. Using a simple demo application as an example, this Wrox
Blox shows how easy it is to get started with NHibernate and build
your DAL in minutes instead of hours. Readers will also see how the
POCO pattern enables you to keep your DAL as unobtrusive as
possible as well as being interchangeable for future DAL
implementations. You will also see how NHibernate has many
enterprise patterns built into it, like the Unit of Work pattern
and the Identity Map.

Table of Contents
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What Is an Object Relational Mapper? 2
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Why NHibernate? 2
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Part 1: Getting Started with NHibernate 2
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A Quick Demo 2
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Part 2: The NHibernate Framework 13
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Architecture and Core Concepts 13

Mapping Your Entities: Impedance Mismatch 16

Persisting Business Objects 18
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Part 3: Using NHibernate 19
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Introducing the Project and Laying out the Solution Framework
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Designing the Domain Model 23

NHibernate Repository Project: Base Class 39

Managing Products 48

Managing Customers 58

NHibernate Repository Project: Refactoring and Session
Management 69

Managing Orders 74

The Database -- A Question of Storage 94

Presentation with the Model-View-Presenter Pattern
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User Interface: ASP.NET 103
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Part 4: Other NHibernate Bits and Pieces 113
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Other Querying Methods 113

Mapping Inheritance 115

What Kind of SQL Is Being Produced? 118
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Wrap Up 119

Scott Millett 120
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