Everything old is new again

I’ve spent several long hours over the last week, trying to get Hibernate for .NET to even just work in Visual Studio. The changed configuration format has been, since I’m not seeing any real examples of how to setup NHibernate 2.0 (Beta 2, which will probably be going release later this month) on the net, I’m just putting it out there now, since I’m trying to learn the whole framework, and so far this was my biggest stumbling point.

Important to note that this isn’t a true example by any measure. It merely shows what to put in your App.config (especially since the official documentation mostly covers the Java version, which naturally has no idea what App.config is. And what little there is for NHibernate, is for the last release.

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I’ve been using Visual Studio for quite some time now, but I’ve never really bothered to investigate this important tool too much. I’ve finally gotten around to check things out, and am I’m gonna try to learn some techniques to increase effieincy a little bit (almost seems like heresy). First round, I’ll focus on keyboard shortcuts. I’ve grouped them into 4 categories, navigation, debugging, editing and others, hopefully they are fairly explanatory. Now mind you that these are the default short cuts for Visual Studio for C#, for C++ and VB they may not work (you’ll have to customize the binding yourself).

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