One of the most common issues that people have run into with using NHQA is the DuplicateMappingException. The root problem is that you are adding both the DLL (which contained embedded resources mapping files) and the mapping files themselves.

Well, after getting tried of answering that question so often, I decided to fix the issue, and let NHQA knows about the issue, and try to resolve it. The fix is in the repository now, but I would like to have some more input before I would release it.

In the repository (Exists / NotExists):

   1:  [Test]

   2:  public void CanQueryOverCollections()

   3:  {

   4:      User one = User.FindOne(Where.User.Blogs.Exists(

   5:                                  Where.Blog.Name == "Ayende @ Blog"

   6:                                  ));

   7:      Assert.IsNotNull(one);

   8:  }

   1:  SELECT this_.Id as Id4_0_, this_.Name as Name4_0_, this_.Email as Email4_0_ 

   2:  FROM Users this_ WHERE exists (SELECT this_0_.Id as y0_ FROM Blogs 

   3:  this_0_ WHERE this_0_.Name = @p0)

Fluent interfaces? Take that.

I am a bit late with this one, but here is a new version for NHibernate 1.2 GA. This also supports Castle Active Record, hopefully in a version neutral way.

You can get it here, or admire the UI here:

As an aside, I am thinking about adding Criteria Query functionality, since this is something that I use a lot. I am not sure yet what form this would take, at any rate it would involve runtime code generation, so that is complex (and sort of fun/pain).

I am opened to ideas.

Have fun...

I package it without including the app.config, which means that the application fails when you start it up.

Please try downloading it again.

There is a new version out, with a couple of bug fixes (handling properties that throws exceptions, handling null results from queries). This version is also compiled against NHibernate 1.2 Beta 3, so hurry up and upgrade.

You can find it here.

Hi, there is a new version out, this one fixes the issues with the registry entries and can support 1.2 beta2 schema as well.

You can get it here (no source yet, can't connect to the Subversion server for some reason).

If you have downloaded NQHG 1.7 and are trying to use it from Visual studio, you probably got the following error:

Cannot find custom tool 'NHibernateQueryGenerator' on this system. The issue is that I didn't update the setup script correctly, and the version that it registers as a COM addin is set to 1.6, while the assembly version is 1.7. This cause the COM load to fail.

This script will reset the NHQG version to the correct one, until I manages to find some time for fixing this properly.

If you want to use NHibernate Generics with NHibernate 1.0.3, you can find a freshly compiled version here.

Have fun...

There is a new build of NQA out, this time it works against (and only against, sorry) NHibernate 1.2 Beta 2.

This time I also added support for Active Record. All you need to do is add the Active Record assembly to your project, add the app.config, and you are set. The only requirement is that the Active Record configuration section will be named "activerecord".

Now you should be able to execute queries against your objects directly. This release is marked as beta, since I have not yet been able to give it the testing that it needs. Let me know how it goes.

You can get the bits here.

I was asked to help an application that was suffering un-optimal performance with NHibernate today. The first thing that I did was upgrade the application to NHibernate 1.2 (which took some time, damn non-virtual methods).

After I was done, I run the application, and was basically done. Just by upgrading to 1.2, we saw a major performance improvement. Now, to be fair, this is not just because NHibernate 1.2 is so much better (although it is :-) ). It is that it has different defaults (specifically about lazy loading) that make a huge difference in performance.