title: Getting single column from an entity
body: <p>How can you get a single column back from a query instead of a whole object?</p>
  
  <p>I could do something like this to get the whole object, but all I want is the names:</p>
  
  <pre><code>IList&lt;Tribble&gt; tribbles = session.CreateCriteria(typeof(Tribble)).List&lt;Tribble&gt;();
  IList&lt;string&gt; names = new List&lt;string&gt;();
  foreach (Tribble t in tribbles) {
      names.Add(t.Name);
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would like to be able to specify additional criteria, so is it possible to just exclude certain columns from being retrieved?</p>