I wasn't sure how well SubSonic would play with Oracle, but it turns out that it was very easy to get the basics working. First, I setup a data access class and the SubSonic basics like VS external tools etc. Instead of the configuration suggested in the above link, my App.config looked like this: <...

Rob has a webcast on using the new sonic.exe tool from the command line . This is very nice stuff, and addresses the only hesistations I had about the pre-2.0 release, which was the requirement to use build providers with ASP.NET. I was going to write my own to use SubSonic from within a class library...

Billy McCafferty has updated his article on NHibernate Best Practices with ASP.NET . This covers a range of topics regarding ASP.NET development with NHibernate, including practices for application architecture and unit testing. This was originally posted to my previous blog. You can view the original...

SubSonic (aka ActionPack) is an incredibly nice tool for generating a data access layer direct from your database schema, including strongly-typed, ActiveRecord-based access to tables, and stored procedures. There is a nice demonstration of it in action. This was originally posted to my previous blog...

Jeremy Miller has pointed out there is work afoot to use Linq as a front-end for NHibernate . ScottGu mentioned earlier that Linq was designed for this kind of interoperability (point #3 under the heading "Built-in System.Linq Extension Methods" which specifically mentions NHibernate et al). It's nice...

NHibernate is a .NET port of Hibernate for Java. From the website: "[NHibernate] handles persisting plain .NET objects to and from an underlying relational database." NHibernate has close ties to the well known and well documented Hibernate project, so there is lots of information available. This is...

Graphical designer for VS.NET 2005 that generates .hbm.xml files for NHibernate. This was originally posted to my previous blog. You can view the original post and any comments here .