Setting up nHibernate with an Oracle database and Visual Studio 2010

I'm creating a .ASPNET project and I would like to setup nHibernate as my ORM tool. I will be using an existing oracle database and Visual Studio 2010. ORM tools are very new to me and rea开发者_StackOverflow中文版lly could use any advice to better understand the tool and the process required to implement them.

I've been following an article at http://nhforge.org/wikis/howtonh/your-first-nhibernate-based-application.aspx to learn about it and am stuck where they say to create a local database as mine only give me the option to create a SQL server database (perhaps this a new for visual studio 2010?). Is the purpose of this database just to cache results from the live database?

Thanks for your help!

Geoff

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have a look to SchemaExport helper class, NH can create the DataBase Schema for you ( anyway you have to create the "user" in the oracle database to connect to ). AFAIK VS2010 does not support OracleDB out of the box.

If you need to reverse engineering the DB in thehbm mapping files, you can try (my) OS tool: http://nhforge.org/wikis/howtonh/how-to-use-db2hbm.aspx, but yet again, complete Oracle is not supported, but you can do the work by configuring.