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NHibernate 4.x Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Gunnar Liljas, Alexander Zaytsev, Jason Dentler
Book Image

NHibernate 4.x Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Gunnar Liljas, Alexander Zaytsev, Jason Dentler

Overview of this book

NHibernate is a mature, flexible, scalable, and feature-complete open source project for data access. Although it sounds like an easy task to build and maintain database applications, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and develop applications that meet your needs perfectly. NHibernate allows you to use plain SQL and stored procedures less and keep focus on your application logic instead. Learning the best practices for a NHibernate-based application will help you avoid problems and ensure that your project is a success. The book will take you from the absolute basics of NHibernate through to its most advanced features, showing you how to take full advantage of each concept to quickly create amazing database applications. You will learn several techniques for each of the four core NHibernate tasks—configuration, mapping, session and transaction management, and querying—and which techniques fit best with various types of applications. In short, you will be able to build an application using NHibernate by the end of the book. You will also learn how to best implement enterprise application architecture patterns using NHibernate, leading to clean, easy-to-understand code and increased productivity. In addition to new features, you will learn creative ways to extend the NHibernate core, as well as gaining techniques to work with the NHibernate search, shards, spatial, envers, and validation projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
NHibernate 4.x Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Fast testing with the SQLite in-memory database


Running a full range of tests for a large NHibernate application can take some time. In this recipe, we will show you how to use SQLite's in-memory database to speed up this process.

Note

This is not meant to replace running integration tests against the real RDBMS before moving to production. Rather, it is a smoke test to provide feedback to developers quickly before running the slower integration tests.

Getting ready

Download and install NUnit from http://nunit.org.

Note

This recipe will work with other test frameworks such as MSTest, MbUnit, and xUnit. Just replace the NUnit-specific attributes with those for your preferred framework.

How to do it...

  1. Create a new empty class library project.

  2. Add references to our Eg.Core model from Chapter 2, Models and Mapping

  3. Install the NUnit package using the NuGet Package Manager Console by executing the following command:

    Install-Package NUnit
    
  4. Install SQLite using the NuGet Package Manager Console by executing...