Where is NHibernate 3.1 Session Query Method?

Question

I am a NHibernate novice to say the least.

I'm using NHibernate 3.1 and I'm trying to implement a generic repository using the generic session Query method. However, I cannot see it in my Visual Studio IDE Intellisense. I can only see QueryOver - which I'm not sure if it's meant to replace Query method. If so, why did they not leave Query but with a message indicating it has been deprecated as per convention?

Please someone help - I'll be eternally grateful.

Many thanks S.O.F community.

Answer 1

It's not deprecated. They're different things. session.Query<T>() lets you use the LINQ provider, while QueryOver is a different API, also Expression based but actually more similar to the Criteria API.

As you already figured out, you need to open the NHibernate.Linq namespace to use the LINQ provider.