Good news everyone! NHibernate 5.1 is released with the support of .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Standard 2.0.

I was asked a question recently which I find quite interesting. It is actually a part of a code review request (which I’ll cover next week) but I decided to elevate it to its own blog post.

To TDD or not to TDD? Is this question even relevant or maybe it’s enough to just write tests, no matter before the code or afterward? Let’s see.

This news went mostly unnoticed but that’s actually a big one, at least for those of us who uses NHibernate as their primary ORM: NHibernate 5 now supports async IO bound operations.

I got a suggestion recently about using .NET structs to represent DDD Value Objects to which I repeated what I’ve been saying and writing for several years now: structs are not a good choice for DDD Value Objects. But then I realized that I never actually dove into the details of why it is so.

So here it is, the blog post where we’ll talk about using .NET Value Types (structs) as DDD Value Objects and what effect it has on the domain model, performance, and mapping the model to the database using ORMs.