Hi David, Can you be more specific on the cases where EF is clearly superior? I'm very interesting in knowing the boundaries here if possible.
Thanks for the input, Marcelo On Apr 13, 7:34 pm, TheCPUWizard <[email protected]> wrote: > Marcelo, > > I use both NH and EF for many different projects. There are cases where EF > is clearly superior and cases where NH is the winner. I do not see it as > better/worse, but more of the right tool for the system and desired > architecture. > > David > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > > Of Marcelo Grossi > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 2:46 PM > To: nhusers > Subject: [nhusers] Re: NH Code First For Dummies? > > Hi Tom, > > My application makes heavy use of relational data and NH is by far the > better option out there (that I have tested). I started out initially with > majorly overrated Microsoft Entity Framework. I didn't support any real > world scenarios I had it faced against. NH however is proving to be a champ! > > Marcelo Grossi > > On Apr 12, 12:23 pm, Tom Bushell <[email protected]> wrote: > > FNH development has been slow recently, because the main developer, > > James Gregory, has taken a new job in Australia. > > > This has left him with little time to work on FNH. But people are > > still submitting fixes, and another release is planned, date unspecified. > > > That said, I'm also a little concerned about the slow pace, and > > considering other options. > > > For my particular application (scientific data collection and > > analysis), there's very little relational data, so a NoSQL solution > > might be a better choice. > > > RavenDB looks particularly interesting. Seems to offer all the > > convenience of FNH automapping, while greatly reducing the complexity > > associated with persisting everything to an underlying relational > database. > > > -Tom > > > On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 4:54:49 PM UTC-4, Marcelo Grossi wrote: > > > > Hi Tom, > > > > Is FNH still being developed? I thought that the latest commits to > > > their source control was from quite a few years back.. > > > > Regards, > > > > Marcelo Grossi > > > > On Apr 11, 11:45 am, Tom Bushell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Glad I could help. > > > > > You might also want to consider using Fluent NHibernate - it's > > > > been > > > around > > > > longer, and is more mature and better documented. Adam has some > > > > good comparisons in his blog posts. I agree with some of his > > > > criticisms of > > > FNH > > > > vs NH MbC, but not all of them. > > > > > In particular, I suggest looking at FNH Automapping > > > > (http://wiki.fluentnhibernate.org/Auto_mapping). I've been using > > > > this > > > on > > > > my project for almost 2 years now, and it mostly "just works". > > > > > NH has nothing equivalent yet, although I've seen some recent > > > > postings > > > here > > > > indicating it's being worked on. > > > > > -Tom Bushell > > > > > On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 12:36:34 AM UTC-4, Marcelo Grossi wrote: > > > > > > Thank you very much Tom, > > > > > > The link you sent was great! > > > > > > Altough I still miss some 'official' documentation or perhaps a > > > > > good book on the inner workings of the ORM, I'm starting to get > > > > > along with NH instead of getting beat up by it day in and day > > > > > out ;-) > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Marcelo Grossi > > > > > > On Apr 9, 11:55 am, Tom Bushell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Check out Adam Bar's series on NH Mapping By Code, starting here: > > > >http://notherdev.blogspot.com/2012/02/nhibernates-mapping-by-code-sum... > > > > > > > This is by far the best info currently available (AFAIK), and > > > > > > really > > > > > should > > > > > > be included with the NH docs. > > > > > > > -Tom Bushell > > > > > > > On Sunday, April 8, 2012 8:35:21 AM UTC-4, Marcelo Grossi wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm trying to build a mapping for NHibernate 3.2.0 using the > > > > > > > code first approach and mapping all by code (I find it more > > > > > > > elegant > > > than a > > > > > > > bunch of XML files). I'm taking a beating from NH for a few > > > > > > > days > > > now > > > > > > > and decided to ask for you NH Gurus out there for help. > > > > > > > > I'm having trouble mapping a custom "Coordinate" value-type > > > > > > > class > > > that > > > > > > > holds latitude and longitude. I made an ICompositeUserType > > > > > > > for it > > > but > > > > > > > can't get it mapped for the love of me! The reason I want a > > > > > > > type > > > for > > > > > > > it is that I will reuse this in several other entity classes. > > > > > > > > My mappings are all in separate classes that derive from > > > ClassMapping > > > > > > > (the entities at least). > > > > > > > > Is there any books or references I can start? I couldn't > > > > > > > find a definitive manual/help for NH 3.2 code first > > > > > > > (ByCode). Any suggestions? Something that will show me all > > > > > > > the possible configurations and thought process I should be > picking up on..? > > > > > > > > Sorry for the long post, any help is much appreciated. > > > > > > > > Thank you > > -- > 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 > athttp://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.
