Announcing the Mindscape NHibernate Designer

   We hate to admit it, but there are some people out there who don’t use LightSpeed. Whether through policy or preference, they’ve instead chosen a free object-relational mapper. And by far the most popular choices are Microsoft’s Entity Framework and the open-source NHibernate.

NHibernate is an impressively flexible and extensible ORM. It’s often said that you can get NHibernate to do pretty much anything. But for many users NHibernate is a bit daunting. It can require quite a lot of work just to set up mappings, let alone get everything working just the way you want it. It’s easy for new NHibernate users to get lost in a sea of options. Fluent NHibernate and mapping attributes have improved this a bit, but it can still be a bit intimidating.

So we’re pleased to announce the Mindscape NHibernate Designer, a visual design and configuration tool for NHibernate models.

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