Once I needed to create a Firebird database from a SQL script file using the ActiveRecord component from Castle Project. First problem was to convince ActiveRecord to execute a non-query command and the second, to execute the script file using the Firebird embedded engine.

I like to use the Guid values as Primary Keys, because I do a lot of data synchronization and sometimes I need to know the ID value before saving the record into the database. Here is a good article about using the Guid as Primary Key.

New lightweight ORM mapper. It uses the ActiveRecord pattern.

NHibernate Query Analyzer (NHQA) helps a lot while working in a .NET project with a relational database that makes use of NHibernate as the persistence manager. I was having a problem getting NHQA to work with a business data layer constructed with the help of ActiveRecord - I searched the Intern...

Testing code that uses Castle ActiveRecord business objects requires some sort of back end for persistence. This approach allows you to use a "mock" back end with ActiveRecord so that you don't need to rely on a file system or database service to unit test your services.

There are two gotchas associated with working with large text fields with NHibernate.

This article is the third in a series of articles concerning NHibernate. This article specifically deals with the Castle ActiveRecord project and how it makes NHibernate easier to use.

Quick overview on using Linq for NHibernate in an ASP.NET MVC Application. RhinoCommons, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC Part 5

This presentation by Hamilton Verissimo and Oren Eini show Castle Active Record - an ORM solution for .NET building on NHibernate. After an introduction, the presentation dives into various advanced topics and techniques for working with Castle Active Record.

Part 3 of RhinoCommons, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC Setting up the very simple model for use in our ASP.NET MVC application.

As we all know, Ayende has done a lot for the .NET community. Blog subscription not optional. We heard lots of different people asking if he ever sleeps. How is this possible? I say; follow the link. http://kyle.baley.org/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricMonorailsWhileTheyreHibernating.aspx http://blo...

"The main part that we have here is the security model, but notice that the application domain model is off to the side, and have very little to do with the security model. In fact, there is only a single requirement from the application domain model, the User entity needs to implement an inter...

Yep, you read that right, they finally made it.