How to prevent NHibernate creating a DAO proxy for lazy loading

Question

On properties inside my domain objects which I do not want lazy loading, I omit the virtual modifier, and also update the mapping file to reflect this using for example:

<property name="UserName" column="Name" type="String" length="40" lazy="false"/>

I would have though that setting the property lazy to false would make it accept that the relevant property inside the domain object not be virtual.

Can anyone explain how I can not make my eager load properties virtual I simply want:

public string UserName{
    get{ return _userName; }
    set{ _userName = value; }
}

Many Thanks,

Andrew

Answer 1

I don't think properties can be lazy loaded -- just collections and references -- unless lazy loading by column was added recently.

I'm not sure what lazy="false" does on that property in NHibernate.

Answer 2

http://davybrion.com/blog/2009/03/must-everything-be-virtual-with-nhibernate/

The following article explains the reason very clearly. Thanks for the input though. Appreciate it