Thank you for your reply, this helped me a lot! This was exactly the kind of information I was looking for to get my bearings straight.
Thanks again! On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 1:36:32 PM UTC+2, JoelP wrote: > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nhusers/-/1pqC-qmsUvcJ. 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.
