>>>>>>I see Oracle has a beta out (that was supposed to be a production release this year).
>>>>>>I hear Microsoft's EF4.x is somewhat compatible.
>>>>>>I hear there are third party providers.
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>>>>>>Anyone tried using any EF with Oracle?
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>>>>>To tell you the truth, I wouldn't even try. I have nothing to base that off of besides my prejudice against EF. I'm stuck using it now, and I really miss NHibernate.
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>>>>I haven't tried NHibernate yet (I'm still digesting EF, Silverlight, RIA, LINQ to Entities and all kinds of new crap that I never used with ASP.NET).
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>>>>What makes NHibernate better?
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>>>Disclaimer: It has a huge learning curve, and can be frustrating as hell.
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>>>I like it because it seems more natural to work with, and I find less architectural limitations than I do with EF. I'm not sure how it works with RIA, since I'm still a Silverlight newbie. I recently switched jobs and we use EF here, but 6 months ago I was writing some high quality NHibernate queries.
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>>OK. My frustration level (with Silverlight primarily) currently is beyond belief, so I'm not going to try to add to it for the time being.
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>>I do see that NHibernate supposedly supports Oracle.
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>>Pluralsight seems to have some NHibernate information, so I'll take a look at that as time permits.
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>>Thanks Mike.
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>Yeah, NHibernate is super frustrating once you start out. When I hit the point where I was comfortable with it, I starting throwing all kinds of weird scenarios at it just to see how it would handle them, and a lot of time my jaw dropped because of the awesome things it could do. One of those products that's just a joy to work with.
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>Few versions old, but a great primer still: http://summerofnhibernate.com/
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>I haven't used the Pluralsight training, but I imagine it's top notch like the rest of their training.

I've been very impressed with it. It has helped me immensly of late.