Introduction The ICriteria API is NHibernate's implementation of Query Object . NHibernate 3.0 introduces the QueryOver api, which combines the use of Extension Methods and Lambda Expressions (both new in .Net 3.5) to provide a statically typesafe wrapper round the ICriteria API. QueryOver uses Lambda Expressions to provide some extra syntax to remove the 'magic strings' from your ICriteria queries. So, for example: .Add(Expression.Eq("Name", "Smith")) becomes: .Where<Person>(p => p.Name == "Smith") With this kind of syntax there are no 'magic strings', and refactoring tools like 'Find All References', and 'Refactor->Rename' work perfectly. Note: QueryOver is intended to remove the references to 'magic strings' from the ICriteria API while maintaining it's opaqueness. It is not a LINQ provider; NHibernate 3.0 has a built-in ...
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