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  28 <p>
  29 The Castle ActiveRecord project is an implementation of the ActiveRecord pattern for .NET. The ActiveRecord pattern
  30 consists on instance properties representing a record in the database, instance methods acting on that specific record
  31 and static methods acting on all records.
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  35 Castle ActiveRecord is built on top of NHibernate, but its attribute-based mapping free the developer of writing XML
  36 for database-to-object mapping, which is needed when using NHibernate directly.
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  39 <pre lang="cs" numberLines="false" title="Example of ActiveRecord class">
  40 [ActiveRecord]
  41 public class Blog : ActiveRecordBase<Blog>
  42 {
  43     private int id;
  44     private string name;
  45     private string author;
  46
  47     [PrimaryKey]
  48     public int Id
  49     {
  50         get { return id; }
  51         set { id = value; }
  52     }
  53
  54     [Property]
  55     public string Name
  56     {
  57         get { return name; }
  58         set { name = value; }
  59     }
  60
  61     [Property]
  62     public string Author
  63     {
  64         get { return author; }
  65         set { author = value; }
  66     }
  67 }
  68 </pre>
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  71 ActiveRecord resources:
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  74 <ul>
  75     <li> <a href="http://www.castleproject.org/activerecord/gettingstarted/index.html" target="_blank">Getting Started</a> </li>
  76     <li> <a href="http://www.castleproject.org/activerecord/documentation/index.html" target="_blank">Documentation</a>  </li>
  77     <li> <a href="http://www.castleproject.org/activerecord/recipes/index.html" target="_blank">Recipes</a>   </li>
  78     <li> <a href="http://www.castleproject.org/activerecord/roadmap.html" target="_blank">Roadmap</a>  </li>
  79     <li> <a href="http://www.castleproject.org/activerecord/faq.html" target="_blank">FAQ</a> </li>
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