Wondering if anyone knows of a set of T4 templates for generating C# POCO classes and also mapping XML files for NHibernate from a set of tables in a database. I saw that David Hayden has created T4 for generating FluentNH code based upon a DBML model, but I'm not quite ready to use FluentNH yet as there isn't even an official release yet (although I love the idea).
Anyone know of any T4 templates for using plain NHibernate?
May not be the answer you are looking for, but I spent a good amount of time a couple months ago looking everywhere for the same thing. I couldn't find any, though.
Not sure if you're set on using T4 for any particular reason, but I ended up using CodeSmith for code generation because there are several templates already available. There are a handful for MyGeneration, but CodeSmith was much farther along.
NOTE: If you do find some, though, you should post it here as I, and probably other people, would be rabidly interested in finding some well done T4 templates for nHibernate.
Follow-up: I decided to write my own code generator for NHibernate xml mapping file and POCO classes. I modeled it after the Linq to SQL generator in the T4 Toolbox project.
I plan to post about the experience and provide a download on my site as soon as I get the chance. Let me know if you're interested and I'll hurry it up.
CodeSmith has template for generating POCO classes and mapping files for NHibernate from a database: http://www.codesmithtools.com/video/nhibernate.html http://www.codesmithtools.com/features/frameworks.aspx
If I remember correctly, S#harpArchitecture has a full set of T4 templates for generating code based on NHibernate.
You can use CodeSmith for this purpose - it has its own template to generate NH classes. Of course that's not T4 but one more powerful template engine