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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

Using named queries in the data access layer


Named queries encapsulated in query objects are a powerful combination. In this recipe, we will show you how to use named queries with your data access layer.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you will need the common service locator from Microsoft patterns and practices. The documentation and source code can be found at http://commonservicelocator.codeplex.com.

Complete the previous recipe: Setting up an NHibernate repository.

Following Fast testing with SQLite in-memory database recipe in Chapter 6, Testing, create a new NHibernate test project named Eg.Core.Data.Impl.Test.

Include the Eg.Core.Data.Impl assembly as an additional mapping assembly in your test project's App.Config with the following xml:

<mapping assembly="Eg.Core.Data.Impl"/>

How to do it…

  1. In the Eg.Core.Data project, add a folder for the Queries namespace.

  2. Add the following IQuery interfaces:

    public interface IQuery
    {
    }
    
    public interface IQuery<TResult> : IQuery 
    {
     ...