What is NHibernate session exactly?

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Afshar Mohebi picture Afshar Mohebi · Sep 30, 2010 · Viewed 10.2k times · Source

It's a long time I'm working with NHibernate session through frameworks like Castle ActiveRecord but never understood what is a session exactly and how should manipulate. Can anybody help? Is there any concise resource?

Thanks in Advance

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Kent Boogaart picture Kent Boogaart · Sep 30, 2010

The NHibernate session encapsulates a unit of work as specified by the unit of work pattern.

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