Well, sometimes you need to check dependencies of your .net assemblies. There are actually a couple of ways to visualize dependencies, one would be to use Lutz Roeders Reflector, which can be extended with a graph-addin.

A more complexe approach is taken by NDepend, which does not only visualize dependencies, but also offers a lot of code analysis functions.

Well, the first thing you need to get with your new-to-develop application started is to gather some sample data. For the development-process creating this data by hand comes in handy, because you know excatly what data is available and what you should expect when querying your database.

But when it comes to testing your application in a real life environment you most likely need some more data. Last but not least you need to test performance and how your app scales. In this case you want to generate a lot of data. But generating this data can be tedious.

To work around this problem you need to have some kind of generator to create the data for you. While searching for such a tool I stumbled across this little tool from Microsoft call DBGen. It’s a little old-fashioned, but seems to do the job quite well.

Well, after doing a small project involving Java EJB 3 and thus coming across hibernate, I figured that I should give a try to NHibernate!

OK, so I got started gathering some stuff from the internet:

• first of all, I need the NHibernate stuff, which comes a sa MSI installer and in a binary ZIP-archive (and to get a clue what those guys are doing I downloaded the source code as well)
• the official documantion might come in handy as well, as well as the API documentation
• and last but not least some samples from the NHibernate team

But I figured, that I might need some more examples, maybe from real life usages …

• basic sample
• enterprise sample