Reputation: 198867

Free NHibernate helper tools?

Are there any free tools to help simplify working with an NHibernate project in .NET 3.5? Primarily, I'm looking for some kind of code and config file generator to automate some of the more tedious parts of working with NHibernate.

Upvotes: 12

Answers (10)

Myles J

Reputation: 2880

The latest version of LLBLGen is able to generate sample Fluent NHibernate Mapping Classes and entities.

Upvotes: 0

pvolders

Reputation: 191

Have a look at: dPulpo, a datalayer generation tool that generates NHibernate mapping files, C# entity classes and your SQL database. There is a Visual Studio plugin and it's currently in beta and free for download.

Upvotes: 0

Guy Fomi

Reputation: 21

what about NConstruct Lite, a small powerfull tool to generating mapping files and Entities...

Upvotes: 2

Håkan M

Reputation:

David Hayden has put together T4 Templates that generate sample Fluent NHibernate Mapping Classes.

http://codebetter.com/blogs/david.hayden/archive/2008/12/14/t4-templates-for-fluent-nhibernate.aspx

Upvotes: 3

David P

Reputation: 3634

Keep an eye out for Oren (Ayende)'s NHhibernate Profiler:

http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2008/11/04/nh-prof-a-guided-tour.aspx

It is not yet released but it looks very promising.

Upvotes: 4

Erik Öjebo

Reputation: 10861

Fluent-NHibernate presents an alternative way of writing your mapping, that for example is more refactor friendly than the standard XML approach.

Example:

public CustomerMap : ClassMap<Customer>
{
  public CustomerMap()
  {
    Id(x => x.ID);
    Map(x => x.Name);
    Map(x => x.Credit);
    HasMany<Product>(x => x.Products)
      .AsBag();
    Component<Address>(x => x.Address, m =>  
    {  
        m.Map(x => x.AddressLine1);  
        m.Map(x => x.AddressLine2);  
        m.Map(x => x.CityName);  
        m.Map(x => x.CountryName);  
    });
}

Upvotes: 12