Hi cws

Thanks, great suggestion! We'll see what we can do...

Cheers,
Gareth.


On Dec 3, 2:32 am, cws <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi again!
>
> Nice!
> Another suggestion is that when doing reverse engineering it would be
> nice to be able to set default collection type and maybe default name
> of index column if you want to use idbags for many to many relations.
>
> On 2 Dec, 12:39, Ricardo Peres <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi, Gareth!
>
> > First of all, nice work! NHibernate is indeed in need of some
> > supporting tools; NHProf and Visual NHibernate are good examples of
> > such tools!
> > Some comments, however:
>
> > - Why aren't all properties virtual by default, or, at least, those
> > properties that represent relations to other entities? I also noticed
> > that they are indeed all created as virtual, despite what appears in
> > the editor;
> > - When generating a model from the DB, when representing a many-to-
> > many relationship, there is no need to map the middle table, unless,
> > of course, this table has extra attributes other than the mapping
> > keys, so why include it in the model?
> > - Why aren't other databases supported, other than Microsoft's? What
> > about SQL Server 2008? OK, I noticed that you can use SQL Server 2008
> > if you choose SQL Server 2005, but IMO it should be explicit, like,
> > "SQL Server 2005/2008";
> > - Classes should be marked with the Serializable attribute (or even
> > with WCF's DataContract and DataMember), it doesn't cause any harm,
> > and allows them to be serialized; perhaps it could be an option?
> > - No support for lazyness yet;
> > - No support for private setters for properties;
> > - No support (at least, I haven't found it) for setting id generator
> > type;
> > - No proper support for composite keys: instead of generating a
> > property for each key, perhaps it would be better to generate an inner
> > class that would wrap these properties, and present a single key
> > object, since all NHibernate's APIs expect a single object as a key.
>
> > Please note that all this is just my humble opinion! :-)
>
> > Keep up the good work!
>
> > RP
>
> > On Dec 2, 10:54 am, Gareth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Fabio, you'll be pleased to know that screenshots have now been added.
> > > Videos might take a bit longer ;-)
>
> > > See them here:http://www.slyce.com/VisualNHibernate/Screenshots/
>
> > > Gareth.
>
> > > On Dec 2, 4:35 pm, Gareth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > We have just uploaded a new build which you can grab 
> > > > here:http://www.slyce.com/downloads/
>
> > > > Diego, your bug has been fixed - thanks for reporting it.
>
> > > > cws, your suggestion has been implemented - thanks for suggesting it.
>
> > > > There are a few other little fixes as well.
>
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Gareth.
>
> > > > On Dec 2, 6:45 am, Gareth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > Oh yes it would....we'll see what we can do ;-)
>
> > > > > Gareth.
>
> > > > > On Dec 1, 11:39 pm, cws <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > Nice tool!
>
> > > > > > Feeback:
>
> > > > > > In the reference edit pane, wouldn't it be nice to see which columns
> > > > > > the foreign-keys belongs to?
>
> > > > > > On 1 Dec, 10:56, Gareth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > Thanks for reporting this Diego. We'll get a fix out asap.
>
> > > > > > > Gareth.
>
> > > > > > > On Dec 1, 10:46 pm, Diego Mijelshon <[email protected]> 
> > > > > > > wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > Reverse engineering doesn't seem to work well... I tried to 
> > > > > > > > open my
> > > > > > > > "DataAccess" project (which contains the mappings and 
> > > > > > > > hibernate.cfg.xml) and
> > > > > > > > got:
> > > > > > > > ---------------------------
> > > > > > > > An Error Occurred
> > > > > > > > ---------------------------
> > > > > > > > Could not find the NHibernate *.cfg.xml in your project
> > > > > > > > ---------------------------
>
> > > > > > > >    Diego
>
> > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 23:40, Gareth <[email protected]> 
> > > > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > > > We have just released a new version of the Visual NHibernate 
> > > > > > > > > beta and
> > > > > > > > > are looking for some testers to provide feeedback. VNH can 
> > > > > > > > > reverse-
> > > > > > > > > engineer existing nHibernate projects, allowing you to 
> > > > > > > > > visualize your
> > > > > > > > > mappings etc. This new version also supports basic NH 
> > > > > > > > > Validator usage.
>
> > > > > > > > > It doesn't yet have 100% coverage of the hbm schema, but it 
> > > > > > > > > will let
> > > > > > > > > report what elements it is not expecting. Please let us know 
> > > > > > > > > what
> > > > > > > > > we're currently missing, and how we can improve this tool for 
> > > > > > > > > you.
>
> > > > > > > > > We are tring to reduce the learning-curve for nHibernate to 
> > > > > > > > > enable
> > > > > > > > > more people to start using nHibernate in their projects.
>
> > > > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > > > > Gareth Hayter.
> > > > > > > > > Slyce Software.
>
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