Advice to start with Nhibernate on C#: documentation, books and any other good learning resources.

Question

I need to learn nHibernate from scratch. I'm a experienced .net developer, but I need some advices about using and implementing nHibernate on .NET apps.

Any documentation or book you consider I "must read", or any other advice will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I've found this to be pretty good:

http://blogs.hibernatingrhinos.com/nhibernate/archive/2008/04/01/your-first-nhibernate-based-application.aspx

Answer 2

NHibernate In Action is a very good book.

Answer 3

This question will answer most of what you need. To summarise:

• There's only one book available: NHibernate in action
• Ayende's blog has a lot of NHibernate tips (he's one of the main contributors)
• NHForge has a fair amount of wiki information, docs and blogs
• The NHibernate tag on Delicious has a lot of sites
• And obviously Googling 'NHibernate' or 'NHibernate blog'

Answer 4

I wrote two entry-level tutorials on my blog:

• Getting started with NHibernate
• LINQ to NHibernate
• Fluent NHibernate Tutorial

I also recommend the "NHibernate in action" book.

Answer 5

Watching the screencasts on http://www.summerofnhibernate.com/ do provide a nice introduction to Nhibernate.

Answer 6

Check out the Mastering NHibernate series on Tekpub.