ADO.NET Entity Framework vs NHibernate

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t3rse picture t3rse · Aug 20, 2008 · Viewed 23.9k times · Source

So the ADO.NET Entity Framework has gotten a little bit of bad press (in the form of blog entries and a petition) but I don't want to rush to judgement. I'm limited in time for experimentation but I was wondering has anyone worked with it yet with more empirical feedback?

Finally, what are thoughts on using NHibernate which has been around for a long time and may be more mature than the ADO.NET Entity Framework.

Answer

TheSmurf picture TheSmurf · Aug 20, 2008

NHibernate may be more mature. That does not necessarily mean it is a "better" solution. Having used it at my job for some time, I would personally prefer to use almost anything than NHibernate (even straight SQL, if migration were remotely feasible). The number of error messages thrown by NHibernate that don't mean anything (or that do mean something but should never occur) is absolutely staggering, as are some of its default behaviours (such as flushing the session once for each object returned in a Find).

Personally, when I have a choice, I use LINQ to SQL for all database work.

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