Hadi has just posted part 2 of his tutorial on building composite applications with Caliburn. In this post he covers basic usage of the EventBroker, ActionMessages and shows one way of putting the pieces together by using the PresenterHost control. Great job!

Hadi Eskandari has begun blogging about Caliburn.  He's putting together a multi-part series detailing the steps necessary to get started building your first application.  Thanks for this great contribution Hadi!  You can read the first post in his series here .

I've updated the NHibernate blog example code to include a custom profile provider. This provider stores the profile information using the XML data type in SQL Server 2005. New profile properties can be added to the web.config file in same way as the Microsoft SqlProfileProvider. The included web.config...

I've made some major changes to the blog application example. The users and roles now use custom membership and role providers that supports NHibernate. Session context is maintained with a custom implementation of ICurrentSessionContext (a new NHibernate 1.2 feature). The session and session factory...

I've updated the mapping files for Comment and BlogPost in Part III . The changes are: The named query GetCommentsByBlogPostID has been moved into the BlogPost.hbm.xml file, it just makes more sense for it to be there. <loader query-ref="GetCommentsByBlogPostID"/> was added to the Comments collection...

When mapping objects to the database in NHibernate you can either use XML files or decorate your classes with mapping attributes (NHibernate.Mapping.Attributes). I've used both but I usually choose XML files simply as a matter of personal preference. Either method works well and both provide many options...

While writing the code necessary for this installment, I found myself falling prey to feature-creep. So I've decided to keep it fairly simple in the beginning. However, once the basic components are working I'll start introducing more features. I thought this might be a good way to demonstrate what is...

When I first started learning and using NHibernate, I read every tutorial, downloaded every example, and studied every code snippet I could get my hands on. There are some great resources available with one of the best being Billy McCafferty's NHibernate Best Practices. In my opinion, the majority of...