like all people that recently started a project that access a DB, i've checked out NHibernate and EF too. It was before .net4 was released so it was against the previous version of EF. I gotta say that EF was unusable. It didn't support POCOs so that alone made it unusable, and the SQL it generated didn't help. There are also some cases when you can't do something with the designer, and if you've taken a look into the XML of EF, you know it doesn't look good.
i didn't work with EF4, but i've been to a Patterns and Practices convention when the P&P team said they think that EF4 is still not very good, and they actually said that they've heard that NHibernate is better. So you can go with EF, and may be in the new version its not as bad as it was when i've looked at it in a manner of Sql and Xml, but if P&P which is a microsoft team that sit in redmond tells me that they don't think its good enough yet, i'd listen On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Tommaso Caldarola <[email protected]>wrote: > If well written a future change should not impact a lot of your code. > > On 8 Giu, 17:58, Red Tiger <[email protected]> wrote: > > We're in the process of choosing an ORM, and we're looking at either > > NHibernate or Entity Framework. Please don't take this question the > > wrong way, but how does the future of NHibernate look? Will it > > continue to be supported by the very intelligent developers who have > > made it what it is today? > > > > Thank you! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nhusers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nhusers%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nhusers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en.
