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ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By : Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz
Book Image

ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By: Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET Core 2.0 Framework has been designed to meet all the needs of today’s web developers. It provides better control, support for test-driven development, and cleaner code. Moreover, it’s lightweight and allows you to run apps on Windows, OSX and Linux, making it the most popular web framework with modern day developers. This book takes a unique approach to web development, using real-world examples to guide you through problems with ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications. It covers Visual Studio 2017- and ASP.NET Core 2.0-specifc changes and provides general MVC development recipes. It explores setting up .NET Core, Visual Studio 2017, Node.js modules, and NuGet. Next, it shows you how to work with Inversion of Control data pattern and caching. We explore everyday ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 patterns and go beyond it into troubleshooting. Finally, we lead you through migrating, hosting, and deploying your code. By the end of the book, you’ll not only have explored every aspect of ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0, you’ll also have a reference you can keep coming back to whenever you need to get the job done.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Accessing data with MongoDb


In this recipe, we access data with MongoDB, a NoSQL database.

Getting ready

We will use VS 2017 with ASP.NET Core.

To access the data, we will first install MongoDB locally. After that, we will install a Node.js module called AdminMongo to provide us with an interface to see and manage mongo data via a graphic interface and then, after creating some data, we will consume it in an ASP.NET Core application.

How to do it...

  1. First, we download the MongoDB Community version from the official website at https://www.mongodb.com/download-center#community and double-click on the .msi file:
  1. Let's specify an installation directory and choose the custom installation option:
  1. Next, we create the directory where we will store the data. By default, we have to create the /data/db folder inside the MongoDB directory we choose when we install it. We also have to create /log/mongo-server.log in the MongoDB directory.
  2. After that, we will create our MongoDB configuration file. Let's create...