Is Lazy Loading required for nHibernate?

Question

It took me a long time but I finally got nHibernate\'s Hello World to work. It worked after I did \"lazy loading.\" Honestly, I couldn\'t tell you why it all worked, but it di

Answer 1

If you're using hbm.xml files for you mapping simply adding a lazy="false" to the element will get you non-lazy loading for all simple properties. Foreign entities will still be lazy by default. To make them eager add lazy="false" to the mapping element. One benefit of eager loading is you will no longer need virtual properties on your entity classes.

Edit: If you really want to find out what's going on behind the scenes, NHibernate logs everything using log4net. Adding

inside in your web.config will spit all the SQL NHibernate generates the file c:\logs\sql.log