NHibernate - Execute SQL to populate DTO

Question

I have some instances for reporting where executing sprocs is easier and simpler than complicated QueryOver statements.

I have a DTO, not an entity, that represents

Answer 1

With CreateSQLQuery, the following would work without any mapping file. Maybe you can give it a try with named queries :

public class YourDto
{
    public int YourDtoId { get; set; }
    public string YourDtoTitle { get; set; }
}

then

var result = yourNhSession
    .CreateSQLQuery("select yourColumn1 as YourDtoId, yourColumn2 as YourDtoTitle from YOUR_TABLE")
    .SetResultTransformer(Transformers.AliasToBean())
    .List();