One of the nicest new features in NHibernate 2.1 is the Future<T>() and FutureValue<T>() functions. They essentially function as a way to defer query execution to a later date, at which point NHibernate will have more information about what the application is supposed to do, and optimize...
A few days ago Oren Eini and Davy Brion were working in a new feature for NH 2.1 (no a release yet) called Future, in the ICriteria API. You can see and explanation of the job here . Now I’ve committed a complement to enable that use into the IQuery API, for those who prefer to use HQL. What is...
As some of you already know, i'm a big fan of avoiding excessive roundtrips by batching queries and/or service calls. For NHibernate, i wrote the QueryBatcher class which makes this pretty easy to do. Ayende recently added a much easier approach for this to NHibernate. Take a look at the following...