OK, hit me over the head if this is a blatantly duplicate question.... I recently purchased NHibernatie in Action from Manning. This book outlines version 1.21 It mentions a version 2.0 of NHibernate that is coming/is in beta. If I download NHibernate from nhforge I get version 2.1 Is the book hopelessly outdated??
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Hi,
the book is a little outdated, but the concepts, and code are still core. the book I found to be a great read and a good source to understand Nhibernate.
the latest version of the library is 2.1. the main thing i have noticed is the proxyfactory which you can setup in the config file (upgrading to 2.1). the mapping files are the same (you can use Fluent Nhiberate instead)
but this said, the book describes how the Session, Transations and other aspects of the library extremely well.
also look at this video cast series http://www.summerofnhibernate.com/ and http://www.dimecasts.net/Casts/ByTag/NHibernate
HTH
Bones
dbones
2009-09-20 21:29:05
I've read through most of the book myself. Though I was and am initially disappointed that it didn't cover the then current 2.0.1 changes, I believe provides a solid backbone of understanding. If only there was a place to go after the book that doesn't involve community posts and guesswork.
David Andres
2009-09-20 21:46:10
there is the reference manual <http://nhforge.org/doc/nh/en/index.html> this is very deep in detail. this is located on the offical community site <http://nhforge.org/>. If you are after commerical support look at <http://www.nhprof.com/CommercialSupport>, which is also home to the NH profiler
dbones
2009-09-20 22:02:57