Key features

PLINQO for NHibernate generates your HBM files, entity classes and all your NHibernate configuration in seconds. You can then safely regenerate that code at any time, which keeps your mappings in sync with the database while intelligently preserving your custom changes.

PLINQO NH offers these features over standard NHibernate.

Data layer generation

• Generate your HBM files from your database.
• Supports tables, views and stored procedures.
• Supports associations and composite keys.
• Generate your entities from your HBM files.

Safe regeneration

• Safely regenerate your data layer from your database.
• Intelligently finds database changes and merges them with your code changes.
• Filter what gets updated from the database.

Intuitive file structure

• Each generated class is split into an editable file and a generated file.
• Complex types are generated into an organized folder structure.

Query logic

• Generates chainable query extension methods that simplify query logic.
• The query extensions support advanced comparison and containment operators.

For the templates behind these features, see Templates.