Billy McCafferty

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• Custom Collections with NHibernate, Part IV: Extensions!

  In part I of this series, we examined motivations for maintaining custom collections that are compliant with NHibernate. Part II demonstrated the basics behind wiring up a custom collection. Finally, part III refactored the solution into a nice reusable... Posted Sep 03 2008, 04:10 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: NHibernate

• ASP.NET MVC BindingHelperExtensions.UpdateFrom with NHibernate loaded objects

  An interesting issue was brought up on the S#arp Architecture discussion today (it was actually brought up on the old S#arp forum...but then I couldn't plug the new location! ;). If you use System.Web.Mvc.BindingHelperExtensions.UpdateFrom to copy... Posted Aug 08 2008, 05:24 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: NHibernate, MVC.NET

• S#arp Architecture: a new home, upgrades and a logo!

  To facilitate better integration with SVN clients, S#arp Architecture has been moved to Google Code at http://code.google.com/p/sharp-architecture . Additionally, a discussion group has just been setup on Google Groups at http://groups.google.com/group... Posted Aug 08 2008, 02:19 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Architecture, NHibernate, MVC.NET, S#arp Architecture

• When to use many-to-one(s) vs. many-to-many with NHibernate

  A common question when developing with NHibernate is: when is it appropriate to use a many-to-many relationship vs. two many-to-one relationships? And does an intermediary domain object need to be introduced to reflect a many-to-many relational table... Posted Jul 11 2008, 12:04 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: NHibernate

• S#arp Architecture 0.7 now supports NHibernate 2.0 Beta 1

  S#arp Architecture 0.7 represents a major upgrade to the infrastructure of S#arp Architecture - but the overall architecture, with respect to application layering, remains the same. This release is far simpler to work with than previous versions while... Posted Jul 10 2008, 12:36 AM by Billy McCafferty with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Architecture, NHibernate, S#arp Architecture

• Performing Join Queries with NHibernate CreateAlias

  [Updated 6/16/08: A bug has been fixed in the Supplier.hbm.xml; the current version is now 0.6.3.] A common scenario that arises when using NHibernate concerns performing join queries across tables via collection properties. For instance, assume a supplier... Posted Jun 16 2008, 09:07 AM by Billy McCafferty with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: NHibernate

• S#arp Architecture upgraded to ASP.NET MVC Preview 3

  S#arp Architecture has been upgraded for compatibility with ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 and Spring.NET 1.1.2.. A big thanks goes out to Adam Cooper and Frank Laub for assisting with this effort. S#arp Architecture, an architectural framework for developing... Posted Jun 09 2008, 11:34 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Architecture, NHibernate, MVC.NET, Spring.NET

• S#arp Architecture: ASP.NET MVC with NHibernate

  To skip to the chase... http://code.google.com/p/sharp-architecture/ It wasn't too many years ago that I used to state quietly that I was a Microsoft web developer. Inevitably, a Java developer would hear my whisper and begin laughing hysterically... Posted Apr 21 2008, 04:44 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 42 comment(s) Filed under: Architecture, NHibernate, Featured, MVC.NET, Spring.NET

• Using Spring.NET and NHibernate with ASP.NET MVC

  [Update 6/11/08 - To see an example of this in action, read the introduction of S#arp Architecture .] I've been quiet lately as I've been a very busy bee preparing the inner workings of the sequel to my NHibernate Best Practices article. In the... Posted Apr 04 2008, 04:38 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 31 comment(s) Filed under: NHibernate, MVC.NET, Spring.NET

• Custom Collections with NHibernate, Part III: Refactored

  [ Update on Dec. 17, 2007: Removed extraneous CustomCollectionsPro.Core.CollectionInterfaces namespace and fixed a bug in CustomCollectionsPro.Data.Collections.PersistentProducts: the second parameter of the PersistentProducts constructor must take a... Posted Dec 07 2007, 09:10 AM by Billy McCafferty with | with 17 comment(s) Filed under: NHibernate

• Custom Collections with NHibernate, Part II: The Basics

  Download the sample code for this post. In part one of this three part series, I offered what we’d ideally like when using NHibernate, or any ORM for that matter, with custom collections in the domain layer. To reiterate, the ORM should have as little... Posted Dec 06 2007, 09:58 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: NHibernate

• Custom Collections with NHibernate, Part I: Who Cares?

  When people speak of the object-relational impedance mismatch , they usually talk about the differences between structure, the lack of behavior in relational databases, and the complexities that mapping abstractions present. A disadvantage which receives... Posted Dec 03 2007, 11:49 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 28 comment(s) Filed under: NHibernate

• Integrate It! Coding Contest using Castle Project

  [Updated May 9, 2007: Clarified contest rules to downgrade some "requirements" to be "suggestions" instead. I.e., there's now a little more wiggle room in the implementation details.] A contest guaranteed to challenge you! This contest involves integrating... Posted May 02 2007, 05:08 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, Contests, NHibernate, Castle Project

• NHibernate Best Practices article updated

  I've updated the CodeProject article NHibernate Best Practices with ASP.NET, 1.2 ed with a number of very important fixes and pedagogical expansions. (I've been waiting for an excuse to use that word.) If you've been using the sample code as a foundation... Posted May 02 2007, 04:24 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 22 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, NHibernate

• Using Equals/GetHashCode Effectively

  [Updated June 23, 2008: A simplified and more systematic approach to this may be found within S#arp Architecture . While the complexities of the Equals/GetHashCode method are kept away in a base class, you simply need to add an [Identity] attribute over... Posted Apr 25 2007, 03:53 PM by Billy McCafferty with | with 37 comment(s) Filed under: C#, NHibernate