In this highly practical 3-day NHibernate Fundamentals workshop, you will learn how to use this O/R mapping tool efficiently in your applications to save time and effort on communicating with database storage. During the course we build together a practical application that demonstrates all important data management patterns.

Please note that this course teaches you NHibernate fundamentals, and doesn't expects you'll have much prior experience using NHibernate on projects. However, to benefit from this course, you do need a minimum of 12 months prior experience developing with C# on the .NET platform.

If you already have extensive experience using NHibernate on projects (ie. over 12 months) and are keen to learn advanced principles, consider Ayende Rahien's Very Advanced and Intensive NHibernate Workshop instead.

Delegates will also receive a copy of NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook during the course.

Day 1: Introduction and basic NHibernate operations

• Principles of ORM
• Starting with NHibernate
• basic NHibernate configuration
• getting started with queries and mapping
• Session and transaction management basics
• Simple Hibernate queries

Day 2: Everyday NHibernate operations

• mapping associations and collections
• mapping properties
• caching
• Lazy Loading
• HQL

Day 3: Advanced Usage

• Castle Integration (NHibernate Facility) and session management
• Advanced Querying
• Detached Queries
• Projections
• 3rd party contributions (NHibernate.Contrib)
• Validator
• Linq to NHibernate