What is NHibernate?
Obviously, it is an ORM. If I may quote from the NHibernate website:
"NHibernate is a mature, open source object-relational mapper for the .NET framework. It's actively developed, fully featured and used in thousands of successful projects."
NHibernate is a .NET port of a very famous ORM from the Java land called Hibernate. Now, Hibernate is quite old and is used by thousands of production applications. NHibernate has not only inherited most of the good features from its Java ancestor but has also been enriched with features from .NET, such as LINQ queries. To understand how powerful it can be, let's take a very simple example. If you have the Customer class from the previous section, mapped to a database table called tblCustomer ...
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