Nesting files in Visual Studio projects is as simple as (pun intended) opening your project file into a text editor, finding your reference to a project file and adding <DependentUpon>Class.cs</DependentUpon> within the element.
However, there’s a catch. Nesting the files causes the file names to be overwritten. In this case, the .hbm.xml suffix gets dropped. That effectively prevents Configuration.AddAssembly() from finding the mapping information. A way around this pitfall is defining the dependency as follows:
<EmbeddedResource include="ServiceRequest.hbm.xml">
<DependentUpon>ServiceRequest.cs</DependentUpon>
<LogicalName>ServiceRequest.hbm.xml</LogicalName>
</EmbeddedResource>
Thanks go to Sami for cracking this nut with me.
Technology
mapping, nhibernate, visual studio
I’m not too big on bloating my Visual Studio with addons and whatnot, but there are a few tweaks here and there. My Visual Studio color scheme is a slightly tweaked version of the Desert Nights scheme by Thomas Restrepo. You can grab it for Visual Studio 2008 here.
I also use the awesome Sonic File Finder addon. It allows you to search for files in your solutions. Programming can be a frantic excercise in jumping between numerous code files and the solution explorer is a really poor way to do it. Most of the time you know what file you’re going for, so just hitting ctrl+, and typing a part of the file name saves you a bunch of time and sanity.
I also used to use the ApexSQL Edit for its superior performance and intellisense feature but it kinda got rendered obsolete after the release of Sql Server 2008 with its built-in intellisense. ApexSQL Diff, however, is a great tool to have in your belt. It does what you’d expect: compares database schemas and merges them. It performs surprisingly complicated merges without breaking a sweat. Both of the aforementioned applications by ApexSQL are of extremely high quality, they perform well and are stable as the negation of something not very stable. Highly recommended.
Technology
ide, sql, tools, visual studio
My god I fell in love with this thing. Best thing since sliced bread.
http://www.codeplex.com/VSFlatSolutionExp
Technology
tools, visual studio
