Converting From NHibernate - Overview

This article is relevant to entity models that utilize the deprecated Visual Studio integration of Telerik Data Access. The current documentation of the Data Access framework is available here.

NHibernate is an object-relational mapper for .NET Framework. NHibernate is free as open source software that is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. It is a port of the Java O/R mapper Hibernate to .NET.

The purpose of this section is to give you general guidelines for manual conversion of NHibernate data models to Telerik Data Access Domain Models.

• Using the Database First Approach - with this approach you need to delete the entire DAL and re-create it by using the Create Model Wizard.
• Using Fluent Mapping API - with this approach you could keep the existing data classes and the only thing you need to do is to configure your application to support Fluent Mapping API.
• CRUD Operations - API Differences - illustrates the most important API differences between Telerik Data Access and NHibernate regarding the CRUD operations.