Part 1 Discovering ORM with NHibernate

1 Object/relational persistence in .NET: 1.1 What is persistence?; 1.2 Approaches to persistence in .NET; 1.3 Why do we need NHibernate?; 1.4 Object/relational mapping; 1.5 Summary
2 Hello NHibernate!: 2.1 “Hello World” with NHibernate; 2.2 Understanding the architecture; 2.3 Basic configuration; 2.4 Advanced configuration settings; 2.5 Summary

Part 2 NHibernate deep dive

3 Writing and mapping classes: 3.1 The CaveatEmptor application; 3.2 Implementing the domain model; 3.3 Defining the mapping metadata; 3.4 Basic property and class mappings; 3.5 Understanding object identity; 3.6 Fine-grained object models; 3.7 Introducing associations; 3.8 Mapping class inheritance; 3.9 Summary
4 Working with persistent objects: 4.1 The persistence lifecycle; 4.2 The persistence manager; 4.3 Using transitive persistence in NHibernate; 4.4 Retrieving objects; 4.5 Summary
5 Transactions, concurrency, and caching: 5.1 Understanding database transactions; 5.2 Working with conversations; 5.3 Caching theory and practice; 5.4 Summary
6 Advanced mapping concepts: 6.1 Understanding the NHibernate type system; 6.2 Mapping collections of value types; 6.3 Mapping entity associations; 6.4 Mapping polymorphic associations; 6.5 Summary
7 Retrieving objects efficiently: 7.1 Executing queries; 7.2 Basic queries for objects; 7.3 Joining associations; 7.4 Writing report queries; 7.5 Advanced query techniques; 7.6 Native SQL; 7.7 Optimizing object retrieval; 7.8 Summary

8 Developing NHibernate applications: 8.1 Inside the layers of an NHibernate application; 8.2 Solving issues related to .NET features; 8.3 Achieving goals and solving problems; 8.4 Integrating services: the case of audit logging; 8.5 Summary
9 Writing real-world domain models: 9.1 Development processes and tools; 9.2 Legacy schemas; 9.3 Understanding persistence ignorance; 9.4 Implementing the business logic; 9.5 Data-binding entities; 9.6 Filling a DataSet with entities’ data; 9.7 Summary
10 Architectural patterns for persistence: 10.1 Designing the persistence layer; 10.2 Implementing conversations; 10.3 Using NHibernate in an Enterprise Services application; 10.4 Summary