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.NET software design and Oracle ODP.NET UDT

I'm working on a new common .NET software design (mainly) for WCF-based web service applications with related client frontends (all written in C#). As far I've chosen some frameworks ...
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Should I Use an ORM only when dealing with Data Model objects?

I am new to ORM, and we started developing a new system using NHibernate as the ORM. I think this question may refer to any ORM and any language/platform. The Team Leader has said we should use ...
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A multi tenant data architecture

We are at a planning & redesign stage of our loyalty card application. As it is understood it will be a multi-tenant application. And I need to take your thoughts. Here are the some key points we ...
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Testing controller logic that uses ISession directly

I have just read this blog post from Jimmy Bogard and was drawn to this comment. Where this falls down is when a component doesn’t support a given layering/architecture. But even with ...
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Abstraction Layer over ORM Generated Entities

I am learning LINQ to SQL (and planning to learn Entity Framework). Initially I used a abstraction layer to convert LINQ to SQL entities into a domain objects. Later I discovered the “Inheritance ...
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What are the best practices to use NHiberante sessions in asp.net (mvc/web api) ?

I have the following setup in my project: public class WebApiApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication { public static ISessionFactory SessionFactory { get; private set; } public ...
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Is it ok to call external services or database inside the entity

I have "logic engine" which executes set of user configured steps. These steps are saved in the database as "Step" entities. The engine gets the first step and then executes steps until there are no ...
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DDD with ORM where should the business logic go?

I have used an MDA (model driven architecture) tool in the past where we modeled via UML and this generated the business entities (our domain model) and the ORM (mapping etc) amongst other things. A ...
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Offline data that will need imported later

My existing application is a .NET 3.0 winform app that talks to a WCF service which in turn updates a MS SQL Server database; I can make changes at all spots (Windows client, WCF, server). I've had an ...
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Why is the Repository pattern needed in NHibernate?

I am reading the official Your first NHibernate based application. While the tutorial is good and easy to follow, I am wondering why the Repository pattern is used. In the various Add, Update, ...
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How do I grok NHibernate's QueryOver API?

I've run into the limits of what NHibernate 3.0's LINQ provider is capable of and decided it's time to learn about one of the more powerful (or at least feature-complete) options: the QueryOver API. ...
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EF vs. NHibernate [closed]

In the past 2 years since I started writing business applications (before I did either high level front end or very low level systems programming), learned datasets, linq to sql, and now entity ...
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What are the most common mistakes and anti-patterns NHibernate user programmers make?

What are the most common mistakes and anti-patterns NHibernate user programmers make? Please explain why those are bad practices or give link to resource for further reading. For example: One ...
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Is writing your own Data Access / Data Mapping Layer a “good” idea?

We're currently in a situation where we have a choice between using an out-of-the-box object-relational mapper or rolling our own We have a legacy application (ASP.NET + SQL Server) where the ...
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What is the benefit of using sharp architecture?

I'm working in a project that use nhibernate as orm. Is there any benefit for me to use sharp architecture? what is these benefits?

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