What Should I Cover In My NHibernate Workshop?

9 commentsWritten on December 29th, 2010 by
Categories: NHibernate

I'm gonna do an NHibernate training/workshop in a few months, and before i can start preparing for it, i need to know what i'm going to cover in the workshop. The workshop should be 3 or maybe 4 days and the goal is that everyone attending it will learn a ton about what you can do with NHibernate, as well as how you should use it.

I just made a list of stuff that i'd like to cover, which is already pretty long. I'd rather start off with a long list and if necessary make some cuts if it turns out to be too much. If you guys have any tips on what else i should include, please let me know :)

Here's the current list:

  • Configuration
  • Classes & Mapping (hbm and FluentNHibernate)
    • entities
    • one-to-many associations (unidirectional & bidirectional)
    • many-to-one associations (unidirectional & bidirectional)
    • inheritance
  • Session/Transaction Management
    • session/transaction management in a web app
    • session/transaction management in a service layer
  • Transitive Persistence
    • transient and persistent entities
    • cascades
    • detached entities
  • Querying
    • HQL
    • criteria
    • QueryOver
    • LINQ
    • polymorphic queries
    • named queries
  • Performance optimisations
    • paging
    • projections
    • future queries
    • batching DML statements
    • executable HQL
    • retrieving data from stored procedures / views
    • using native SQL
  • optimistic concurrency
  • pessimistic locking
  • identifier strategies
  • inheritance strategies
  • advanced mappings
    • value types collections
    • components
    • component collections
    • (composite) user types
    • many-to-many associations (unidirectional & bidirectional)
    • polymorphic associations (one-to-many, many-to-one)
  • 2nd Level Cache
    • entities
    • collections
    • queries
  • stateless sessions (bulk data processing)
  • extending nhibernate
    • custom implementations of NHibernate components
    • event listeners
  • Kris-I

    Very nice. Where this workshop ? Using with WPF ? unhaddins may be ?

  • http://davybrion.com Davy Brion

    not sure about the exact location yet, but definitely in Belgium ;)

  • CB

    Since this won’t be in my country. Will there be a downloadable version i.e. tutorials, powerpoint or code samples? :)

  • http://davybrion.com Davy Brion

    @CB

    if it’s up to me, then yes

    but i can’t promise anything about that yet

  • kriebb

    Where can we find the details in order to follow this very nice workshop? Are you going to keep us posted using your blog?

  • http://davybrion.com Davy Brion

    @Kriebb

    yup, all details will be posted

  • Tom

    How much you going to charge? I’m in the UK but would travel if low enough cost (free would be awesome if you could get sponsorship maybe).

  • http://davybrion.com Davy Brion

    @Tom

    no idea on the pricing yet… but i will post that info as soon as it’s all set up. I can definitely tell you already that it won’t be free though :)

  • James L

    Debugging, how to see what’s happening under the hood to ensure it’s doing something sane.