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NHibernate 2 Beginner's Guide

By : Aaron Cure
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NHibernate 2 Beginner's Guide

By: Aaron Cure

Overview of this book

<p>NHibernate is an open source object-relational mapper, or simply put, a way to retrieve data from your database into standard .NET objects. Quite often we spend hours designing the database, only to go back and re-design a mechanism to access that data and then optimize that mechanism. This book will save you time on your project, providing all the information along with concrete examples about the use and optimization of NHibernate.<br /><br />This book is an approachable, detailed introduction to the NHibernate object-relational mapper and how to integrate it with your .NET projects. If you're tired of writing stored procedures or maintaining inline SQL, this is the book for you.<br /><br />Connecting to a database to retrieve data is a major part of nearly every project, from websites to desktop applications to distributed applications. Using the techniques presented in this book, you can access data in your own database with little or no code.<br /><br />This book covers the use of NHibernate from a first glance at retrieving data and developing access layers to more advanced topics such as optimization and Security and Membership providers. It will show you how to connect to multiple databases and speed up your web applications using strong caching tools. We also discuss the use of third-party tools for code generation and other tricks to make your development smoother, quicker, and more effective.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
NHibernate 2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Data access


The final class, LoginDataControl.cs, provides CRUD methods for data retrieval, storage, and removal. The session variable is an NHibernate session (you can find out more about session management in Chapter 5, The Session Procession).

This class defines a few simple CRUD methods that are used quite often when manipulating database records. The GetById(int id) function allows the user to pass in an integer and retrieve the record with that ID. The GetAll() method returns all of the records in a given table. GetCountOfAll() returns a count of the records in the table, while allowing controls that handle pagination and record navigation to function.

public class LoginDataControl
{
  public LoginDataControl() { }
  ISession session;

  public Login GetById(int id)
  {
    Login retVal = session.Get<Login>(id);
    return retVal;
  }

  public IList<Login> GetAll()
  {
    ICriteria criteria = session.CreateCriteria<Login>();
    IList<Login> retVal = criteria.List<Login>();
    return retVal;
  }

  public int GetCountOfAll()
  {
    return GetAll().Count;
  }
}