Greetings all. I'm new to .net and I have a new project starting and I'm concidering using NHibernate as it seems like the mature way to go, but I have some things that still kind of scare me in regards to starting to use NH, help me get over my issues:
1. The learning curve is massive (I come from Grails, where Hibernate was extremely well wrapped). I found very little in regards to guides and tutorials. 2. I got the impression that using database first would be difficult, I found no tutorials! I have always done migrations with simple .sql scripts and helper apps I wrote myself. 3. If I don't use database first and my db changes, I might lose my data? How does migration using code first work? 4. The user base is shrinking? This group got 900+ msgs in feb'09, 800+ msgs in feb'10, 550+ msgs in feb'11 and now only 130+ msgs in feb'12! I hope this is because users migrated somewhere else to discuss but this is scary as I will need help from time to time. Currently I'm caught in limbo thinking it might be easier if I just wrote the sql statements myself with simple classes and wiring them together using duct tape - but it really, really looks like ASP.net MVC 3 apps are meant to be used with an ORM. My databse will be quite simple, <20 tables with 1-1 and 1-n relations only. Point me to a starting point -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nhusers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en.
