T4 template for NHibernate? - not Fluent NHibernate

Question

Wondering if anyone knows of a set of T4 templates for generating C# POCO classes and also mapping XML files for NHibernate from a set of tables in a database. I saw that David Hayden has created T4 for generating FluentNH code based upon a DBML model, but I'm not quite ready to use FluentNH yet as there isn't even an official release yet (although I love the idea).

Anyone know of any T4 templates for using plain NHibernate?

Answer 1

May not be the answer you are looking for, but I spent a good amount of time a couple months ago looking everywhere for the same thing. I couldn't find any, though.

Not sure if you're set on using T4 for any particular reason, but I ended up using CodeSmith for code generation because there are several templates already available. There are a handful for MyGeneration, but CodeSmith was much farther along.

NOTE: If you do find some, though, you should post it here as I, and probably other people, would be rabidly interested in finding some well done T4 templates for nHibernate.

Answer 2

LLBLGen's upcoming release (V3), currently in beta, will have templates for generating NHibernate POCO classes and mappings, as well as templates for EF1/4 and its own framework.

Answer 3

I'm trying to make one. Check it out: https://code.google.com/p/t4nh/

I use this template set in three of my projects, and it works well. Not published formerly since I still don't know if people can apply it well. Hope I can make my template set better with the community

Answer 4

Try Entity Developer from Devart. I need a little tweaked version for dynamic fields, but what I have seen so far looks good. I need to edit the T4 templates and would prefere to do it in VS, not in Entity Developer, which is how I found this thread...