NHibernate on Azure?

Question

Has anyone tried NHibernate on Azure? Is there conflicts with the medium trust or SQL integration?

Answer 1

The NHibernate test suite fully works on SQL Azure . You should be able to simply change your connection string to your SQL Azure connection string.

There shouldn't be any hangups in running using NHibernate from a Web or Worker role.

Answer 2

I have tried NHibernate 3 inside Azure Web Role which talks to Azure SQL. I did not have any problems, runs pretty fine.

I am using NFluent for configuration. I can create the database directly from the mapping configuration.

There was only one issue with the HiLo generator. If you are interested in details, I have post it on my blog .

This issue comes from the fact that Azure SQL is not completely compatible with SQL Server. The limitations of Azure SQL are described here . But that was just a minor issue.

Answer 3

Not sure about NHibernate, but Azure now allows full trust applications.

Hosting Web and Worker Roles Under Full Trust