Part II of the Southeast Valley .NET User Group ORM comparison happened yesterday.  It started off nice and calm but ended with a bang or two.  No there were no fight or arguments between the presenters or attendees but mother nature let loose on the Phoenix area last night.  Especially...

The July July and August 2008 meetings of Southeast Valley .Net Users Group ( SEVDNUG ) will host a comparison of different Object Relational Mapper / Data Access Layer technologies. Requirements have been to established so that there is a common database and user interface to compare these technologies...

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I am writing application that besides other cool things lets users insert information about business contacts. My system is able to keep names history of contacts. In this posting I will show you how to use NHibernate mappings to keep names ordered logically. Here is fragment of my class diagram. It...

In one of my applications I have to use week numbers as properties of business classes that are persisted to database using NHibernate. Week numbers are used in UI and users can filter and sort data by week numbers. In this posting I will show you how to make SQL Server deal with week numbers and how...