NHibernate - flexible config files

Question

I am using NHibernate in a DAL layer dll. Local config file(app.config) is being used for db connection. This DAL component can be used in 2 different exe's and a NUnit test harness. Business requirement from Client is to have config information reside in exe's app.config file.
Is there a way to configure NHibernate to look for an app.config file based on the exe that it is compiled with? Then in the NUnit test harness, look for a default config file?

Thanks, Marc

Answer 1

As Dan hinted, NHibernate's main config section can either be in a standalone hibernate.cfg.xml, OR it can be put in the application's config file. If you want NHibernate's core config to vary by the currently executing environment (different apps, or during testing), you can go the app.config route. If no hibernate.cfg.xml file is found, NHibernate is going to look in the currently executing app's app.config file.

Here is an example of putting the NHibernate config in an app.config file: http://www.martinwilley.com/net/code/nhibernate/appconfig.html