Lesser-Known NHibernate Features

Updated on October 5th.

Here I will list some of NHibernate’s hidden or not so well known gems.

1. Mapping a Class to a Query
2. Mixing Client and Server-Side Calls in Projections
3. Entity Mode Map
4. Future Queries
5. Serializable Values
6. Proxy Generation
7. Validation and Lifecycle Interfaces
8. Generating Database Scripts
9. Result Transformers
10. Filtering an Unloaded Collection
11. Versioning and Optimistic Concurrency
12. Mapping By Attributes
13. Custom Loggers
14. Serializing Configuration
15. LINQ Extensions
16. Mapping By Convention
17. Filters
18. Calculated Properties
19. Dynamic Components
20. Statistics
21. Executable HQL