In my last post I discussed wrapping up the two core objects of nHibernate, the session manager factory and the session, in a helper class. At the end of the story I briefly mentioned how to use helper objects in a repository. In this post I am further exploring the actual database actions of the helper...

In a relative short span of time nHibernate has become a major member of my toolbox. It has become the way to work with a database, not only a small hap-snap apps but it's also making big strides into a constantly evolving system I'm working on. Setting up nHibernate several times has given me...

This post is an extended and revised version of " Back to basics, just reading some data from a DB ". Feedback on that provided more than enough inspiration for this one. Are you already drowning in the enormous amount of TLA's, tools, utilities, methodologies and whatever else ? Let's...

<update>A revised and extended version of this post also handles creating a customer domain object, which does have some behavior. It does also covers some methods to make the behavior of the datareader a little cleaner. The post can be found here </update> Are you already drowning in the...

In this post I'm going to take a closer look at XSD, the XML schema language. Like most of you I came into touch with XSD through.NET datasets and for quite some time I didn't quite get the perspective it deserves. Before exploring XSD itself I'll take a brief historical tour and will kick...

Previously I discussed some issues with modopt . Well there are more. In total I have logged three issues (could be many more as nearly every language I have looked at has the same problems). I figured I would put up some links and describe each issue here. C# specification does not define modopt varying...