I'm up to the last item in your list.  That's what I was specifically
asking about.  I've used NHibernate for simple/intermediate queries
but have yet to successfully construct a large query.

On Jun 23, 5:52 pm, Diego Mijelshon <[email protected]> wrote:
> The first problem there is "a Stored Proc that populates a grid".
> You've got to change the way you look at this *radically* if you want to
> take advantage of NHibernate.
>
> I'll give you some starting steps.
> - Create a rich domain model that represents your entities and their
> relationships (mapped as references, not Ids)
> - Map your domain to the DB. You can use XML, Fluent or ConfORM, whatever
> you like best
> - Design your view, with the corresponding data bindings. You can take two
> approaches here:
>   - Pass the domain objects and bind to nested properties. For example,
> Name, AuthorAddress.State, etc
>   - Build DTOs/Presentation Models from your domain objects exposing just
> what the grid needs. For example BookName, AuthorAddressState, etc.
> - Build a simple query that retrieves the root objects. You can use HQL,
> Criteria, Linq...
> - Optimize your query and mappings using joining, batching and caching to
> improve performance as needed
>
>    Diego
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 19:05, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm trying to figure out how to do complicated queries in NHibernate.
> > I'm trying to refactor a Stored Proc that populates a grid to an
> > NHibernate query, but I'm having problems because it joins a dozen
> > tables.  I'm aware of setting FetchModes in NHibernate; however, it
> > just seems like it's going to be difficult to recreate the results of
> > this query in OO format instead of tabular format.  Here's an example
> > query:
>
> > SELECT
> >   Book.ID,
> >   Book.Name,
> >   Author.Name,
> >   AuthorAddress.State,
> >   Publisher.Name,
> >   PublisherAddress.State
> > FROM
> >   Book
> >      INNER JOIN Author ON (Author.ID = Book.AuthorID)
> >      INNER JOIN Address AuthorAddress ON (AuthorAddress.ID =
> > Author.AddressID)
> >      INNER JOIN Publisher ON (Publisher.ID = Book.PublisherID)
> >      INNER JOIN Address PublisherAddress ON (PublisherAddress.ID =
> > Publisher.AddressID)
>
> > Now this is a mocked up example, but you can see the Joins go more
> > than one level deep.  After I figure in dynamic sorting and paging,
> > the Stored Proc yields the exact structure I want to show in my grid.
> > I'm having problems replicating this with NHibernate.  Any advice out
> > there?  Should I be taking a different approach?  I thought about
> > keeping a stored procedure and loading it to a simple DTO for display
> > in my grid, but there's domain logic I would love to include in the
> > grid, and I'd hate to replicate it.
>
> > Thanks!
>
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