NHibernate needs to have a place to "hold" the data that we are storing in the database. In order for NHibernate to do its job, we need to create some public properties to contain the data.
A property is simply a way to set and get data. We define a property by declaring a private variable to hold the actual data and some combination of a getter and/or a setter to manipulate the value in the private variable.
In C#, a property looks something as follows:
private int _id;
public int Id
{
get { return _id; }
set { _id = value; }
}While in VB.NET, it will look as follows:
Private _id As Integer
Public Property Id() As Integer
Get
Return _id
End Get
Set(ByVal value As Integer)
_id = value
End Set
End PropertyIt is possible to create a ReadOnly property where a user has no access to the setter, that is, the only way to set the value is by manipulating the private variable from within the class itself. A ReadOnly property will look very similar...