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How-To: Using the N* Stack, Part 1 , first in a series of articles on setting your first NHibernate ASP.NET MVC application. NerdDinner with Fluent NHibernate Part 1 , first in a series on converting the NerdDinner project to use NHibernate/FluentNhibernate. Part 3 on using NHibernate and WPF , utilizing...

(Screencast can be found at the end of the post) To be clear when I say “total n00b”, I’m not talking about you, dear reader, I’m talking about me. The last time I wrote any serious data access code was circa 2002. Since then, I got hired by the Evil Empire and started developing new tools to make it...

(Screencast can be found at the end of the post) To be clear when I say “total n00b”, I’m not talking about you, dear reader, I’m talking about me. The last time I wrote any serious data access code was circa 2002. Since then, I got hired by the Evil Empire and started developing new tools to make it...

This attribute will be applied to any action method within an MVC controller, or even to an entire MVC controller class. It will cause the entire action (or any action in the controller, depending on usage) to be executed inside of a transaction, properly committing the transaction on successful method...

This will be a quick and dirty post about how to get xVal 1.0 ( http://xval.codeplex.com/ ) to work with the new NHibernate Validator 1.2beta ( http://nhforge.org/media/p/7.aspx ). The problem is that xVal 1.0 ships with a NHibernate Validator (NHVal) Ruleset Provider which does not compile against the...

When using ASP.NET MVC you will eventually want to do a select (drop down) or even a multiple select list, and your first though might be to use <%= Html.DropDownList %>.  Unfortunately you will soon notice that ASP.NET MVC always looks for a match between the name of the dropdown and a property...

I’ve recently switched from the Enterprise Library Validation Application Block to using NHibernate Validators. If you are not familiar with the NHibernate Validator project, they are part of the NHibernate Contrib project and offer Validation constraints, and validation runner, and tight integration...

        Telerik recently released their Extensions for ASP.NET MVC which include several great controls, the most immediately useful of which is their Grid control.  In the simple (and probably most common) cases the grid works by passing taking an enumerable list of...

In an earlier post I talked about writing a Transaction attribute for MVC using NHibernate (though it isn’t really NHibernate specific).  The basic idea is that when an action marked with [Transaction] is executing (OnActionExecuting) you begin a transaction, and some time later (I use OnActionExecuted...