http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660I'm interested in learning how to best map against an existing 3rd party vendor schema to write programs which can consume and transform the data into other meaningful elements.http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment119http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment119Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:40:12 GMTThe book seems to be great source of information about NHibernate showing how to start using the framework and helping to migrate from some other ORMs, telling the longer story how to write better solution based on NHibernate and avoiding common pitfalls in the NHibernate world.http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment118http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment118Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:23:07 GMTconcerning the question, it wasn't clear to me if you meant "what interests you the most about this book (of things which are covered in the book)" or "what interests you the most about this book (without knowing what is in it)" so answer to "things that are covered": "Write unit and integration tests for your data access layer" - as a test engineer, I would not get as many out of that compared to some other readers, but I would be really interested in the way you approached the design to make everything testable answer to "things i would like to see (and maybe are covered)": I would be interested in how well NHibernate compares to it's commercial competitors (MindScapes LightSpeed and DataObjects.NET come into mind), but I would be surprised if something like that is covered ;)http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment117http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment117Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:33:51 GMTI have started digging around more ORM stuff after being exposed to some EF, SubSonic, and most recently NHibernate. For me, the interesting chapters would be: Chapter 6: Sessions and Transactions; Chapter 7: Testing, Profiling, Monitoring, and Logging; and Chapter 10: Validating the Data to Persist.http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment116http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment116Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:19:13 GMTI'd love to have a copy! I've been learning Entity Framework and would like to compare the two ORMs.http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment115http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment115Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:50:27 GMTI'm most interested in unit testing, and the common pitfallshttp://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment114http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment114Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:30:04 GMTWhat interests me the most about the book would be having a complete guide that covers the basics all the way up to the advanced topics as there's certain things I haven't had much experience with. The different collection mapping types and when to use them would be the most useful for me.http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment113http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment113Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:31:09 GMTeasiest way to learn about bridging the gap between object-oriented .NET applications and the relational databasehttp://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment112http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment112Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:45:32 GMTThe most interesting chapters to me are Chapter 7: Testing, Profiling, Monitoring, and Logging Chapter 11: Common Pitfalls—Things to Avoid because I'm least familiar with those aspects.http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment111http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment111Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:59:57 GMTI've never used NHibernate, so a beginners book is perfect for me. I've taken a brief look at Entity Framework and have been planning on using that for an upcoming project, but it would be nice to get this into guide and compare the benefits of both systems before picking one to use.http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment110http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment110Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:57:19 GMTI tried, but haven't found any commnets section on http://www.packtpub.com/nhibernate-3-beginners-guide/book... Do I have to create an account there?http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment109http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment109Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:30:55 GMTHoly Crap, 44 bucks is quite a bit for a book. I need it for free!http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment108http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment108Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:10:53 GMTTo me what interests me the most in the book is the complete sample (and comparison to ADO.NET), followed by the common pitfalls.http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment107http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment107Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:02:36 GMTWhat interests me the most about this book is that it's free if I win. :) Very honest answer! There are a few other reasons as well but you asked "the most".. :) http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment106http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment106Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:45:47 GMTHi, I'm very interested in testing and the Common PitFalls. Thanks Peterhttp://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment105http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment105Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:56:02 GMTThe part that interests me the most is "Efficiently query the database by using LINQ to NHibernate" (not HQL!). Actually I would like to know the limitations of LINQ2NH compared to HQL.http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment104http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment104Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:46:34 GMTI am really looking forward to read Chapter 6: Sessions and Transactions!http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment103http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment103Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:56:45 GMTI've used EF, LINQ to SQL, Massive, and Dapper, but never had the pleasure of NHibernate. Would be nice to see how it compares. I've heard good things about the latest versions.http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment102http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment102Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:06:50 GMTI am especially interested in Chapter 9: Writing Queries. By writing bad queries you can loose so much performance. http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment101http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment101Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:57:51 GMTSeems to me that the most interesting part would be "using LINQ to NHibernate".. I use nhibernate daily in my work project but we did not yet start using LINQ to nhibernate and this is probably the most valuable part for me..http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment100http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment100Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:30:17 GMTWould I also win the time to read it? :)http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment99http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment99Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:56:59 GMTThe chapter on common pitfalls sounds interesting. http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment98http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment98Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:16:39 GMTI'm primarily an Entity Framework programmer and am sick and tired of hearing my boss continually say "Well, we could do that with NHibernate." =) I'm very much interested in seeing how NHibernate handles certain pain points I've encountered when working with EF (particularly POCO support). This book would be an excellent, guided introduction to the world of NHibernate.http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment97http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment97Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:55:51 GMTHey Ayende, I think I'm most interesting in learning about both implementing data validation on the entity level as well as common pitfalls to avoid! Thanks, Ryanhttp://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment96http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment96Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:39:51 GMTI'm extremely interested in integration tests, I've only done them in Java, and now that I've been dumped into the .net world, I'm sort of all over the place in getting integration tests going...http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment95http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment95Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:57:36 GMTThe two areas in the book that interest me are those on showcasing common pitfalls and applying different techniques to perform database mappings.http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment94http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment94Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:34:11 GMTHello Ayende! Chapter 11 (Common Pitfalls - Things to Avoid) looks definitely very interesting from what I can read in the books description. I am also interested in ways of performing entity auditing without the direct use of triggers, or other database specific stuff, if this is covered by the book. Regards!http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment93http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment93Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:01:28 GMTCan I use LLBL Gen Profiler by configuraion file, not code like this LLBLGenProfiler.Initialize(); because in some case, I need to trace LLBL Gen's output sql, but in some case, there is no need to do so. so,I want to know, can I use LLBL Gen Profiler by change configruration file like this: <trace autoflush="true" indentsize="4"> <listeners> <add name="myListener" type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener" initializeData="C:\logs\TraceSample.csv" /> <add name="EventLog" type="System.Diagnostics.EventLogTraceListener, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" initializeData="sample application"/> </listeners> </trace> http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment92http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment92Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:01:09 GMT@Mike - I bought the book for myself :) I made my boss buy it for the company for everyone else to read after I bought it. I also bought the NH3 cookbook which I don't recommend.http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment91http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment91Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:20:10 GMTWrite unit and integration tests for your data access layerhttp://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment90http://ayende.com/144385/win-free-copies-of-nhibernate-3-beginners-guide#comment90Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:11:26 GMT