In this 3-day introductory NHibernate course, 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 simple practical application that demonstrates all important data management patterns.

• Configure NHibernate for your applications
• Manage sessions and transactions
• Map objects and collections to database structures
• Use NHibernate Castle integration facilities
• Improve performance with advanced caching and loading options

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
• Shards
• 3rd party contributions (NHibernate.Contrib)
• Validator
• Burrow
• Linq to NHibernate