Question

How to load application settings to NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration object by using System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager from App.config?

Answer 1

app.config:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="Northwind" connectionString=
       "Data Source=(local);Initial Catalog=Northwind;Trusted_Connection=True;>
  </connectionStrings>
</configuration>

C# code:

string connectionString =  System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager
                                 .ConnectionStrings["Northwind"].ToString();

NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration nHibernateConfiguration =
                                      new NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration();
nHibernateConfiguration.SetProperty(
  NHibernate.Cfg.Environment.ProxyFactoryFactoryClass,
  typeof(NHibernate.ByteCode.Castle.ProxyFactoryFactory).AssemblyQualifiedName);
nHibernateConfiguration.SetProperty(
  NHibernate.Cfg.Environment.Dialect,
  typeof(NHibernate.Dialect.MsSql2005Dialect).AssemblyQualifiedName);
nHibernateConfiguration.SetProperty(
  NHibernate.Cfg.Environment.ConnectionString, connectionString);
nHibernateConfiguration.SetProperty(
  NHibernate.Cfg.Environment.FormatSql, "true");
nHibernateConfiguration.AddAssembly(Assembly.GetCallingAssembly());

ISessionFactory oneISessionFactory = nHibernateConfiguration
                                        .BuildSessionFactory();