Generate database schema from NHibernate mapping

Question

Is it possible to generate the database schema from the Nhibernate mappings DLL?

My requirements is for MySQL. If so, how do I do that? Are there tools/scripts for this? Open source/freeware tools?
Additionally, can I use these tools to insert/update datasets to the database?

Answer 1

Have you tried using NHibernate's built-in schema generation tool?

var cfg = new NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration();
cfg.Configure();
cfg.AddAssembly(typeof(AnEntityInYourMappingLib).Assembly);
new NHibernate.Tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport(cfg).Execute(false, true, false, false);

Answer 2

I use this code :

public void CreateDatabaseSchemaFromMappingFiles()
{
    NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration cfg = new NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration();
    cfg.Configure();
    NHibernate.Tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport schema = new NHibernate.Tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport(cfg);
    schema.Create(false, true);
}