The barrier to entry really isn't too high anymore. I have had really good success with FluentNHibernate, conventions to map to existing databases. The documentation is pretty poor/scattered/outdated/missing, but there are enough user's that finding what you need is pretty simple - somebody has already stumbled and solved the problem. I am pretty sure Nuget has even made it easier to get up and running.
Also, buy the cookbook...lot's of recipe's. -Jeff On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Fabio Maulo <[email protected]> wrote: > The number of message decrease because what increase is the number of > people with a good knowledge of an "old" framework. > Don't be scared... the last release of NH (3.2.0) have the download record > in the NH's history. > > > On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 8:36:32 AM UTC-3, Joel 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/-/nJqBtgPHZsAJ. > > 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. > -- 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.
