Getting started with nhibernate, informix and fluentmapping

Question

I need to configure NHibernate 3.1 to target an informix 11.50 database in an asp.net 4.0 application using Fluent NHibernate for mappings.

I have this connection string: jdbc:informix-sqli://server:1530/database:informixserver=lufi_tcp and I have the user an pass. I can connect to to the database using dbvisualizer.

I tray some examples of configuracion that I find on the Internet but it dosen't work.

Can someone get my a link or informacion about what I need to do for configure nhibernate with fluent to target an informix database (for dummies, please.)

S.O: Windows 8 64 bits

Thanks you in advance.

More information:

I Build the session factory in this way:

 class FluentNHibernateLocalSessionFactory : LocalSessionFactoryObject
{
    public string[] FluentNhibernateMappingAssemblies { get; set; }

    protected override ISessionFactory NewSessionFactory(Configuration config)
    {
        return Fluently.Configure()
            .Database(
                 IfxSQLIConfiguration
                .Informix1000
                .Provider<NHibernate.Connection.DriverConnectionProvider>()
                .Driver<NHibernate.Driver.IfxDriver>()
                .Dialect<NHibernate.Dialect.InformixDialect>()
                .ConnectionString("Database=myDatabase;Server=myServer:1530;Persist Security      Info=True;Authentication=Server;uid=myUser;password=myPass;")
                .ShowSql()
            )
            .Mappings(m =>
            {
                foreach (string assemblyName in FluentNhibernateMappingAssemblies)
                    m.FluentMappings.AddFromAssembly(Assembly.Load(assemblyName));
            })
           .BuildConfiguration()
           .BuildSessionFactory();
    }
}

The error I get: {"Could not create the driver from NHibernate.Driver.IfxDriver, NHibernate, Version=3.1.0.4000, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=aa95f207798dfdb4."}

Answer 1

You have to add a reference to IBM.Data.Informix otherwise the driver will throw this exception. To do so you have to add a reference to IBM.Data.Informix.dll to the project which is running your code above.