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RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide

By : Khaled Tannir
Book Image

RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide

By: Khaled Tannir

Overview of this book

RavenDB is a second generation document database written in .NET, offering a flexible data model designed to address requirements coming from real-world systems. It is different from the other document databases around, as with RavenDB you can get up and running in a few minutes, and that includes grasping all the basics. It allows you to build high-performance, low-latency applications with ease and efficiency.RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide introduces RavenDB concepts and teaches you everything, right from installing RavenDB, to creating documents, and querying indexes. This book will help you take advantage of powerful, document-oriented NoSQL databases and build a solid foundation on which you can create your .NET applications. This book presents RavenDB, the .NET document-oriented NoSQL database, through a series of clear and practical exercises that will help you to take advantage of this database server. The book starts off with an introduction to RavenDB and its Management Studio. You will then move ahead and learn how to quickly and efficiently build high performance, NoSQL document-oriented .NET applications using the .NET client API or the HTTP REST API. Next, Dynamic and static indexes that use map/reduce to process datasets are covered. You will then see how to create and query these indexes, with the help of detailed examples. You will also learn how to deploy your RavenDB server in a production environment and how to optimize and secure it.With numerous practical examples, RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide teaches you everything you need to know for building high performance .NET document-oriented NoSQL databases.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up your development environment


Before you can start developing an application for RavenDB, you must first set up your development environment. This setup involves installing the following software packages on your development computer:

  • Visual Studio 2012 (required)

  • RavenDB Client (required)

  • NuGet Package Manager (optional)

You may download and install the latest Visual Studio version from the Microsoft website: http://msdn.microsoft.com/En-us/library/vstudio/e2h7fzkw.aspx

In order to use RavenDB in your own .NET application, you have to add a reference to the Raven.Client.Lightweight.dll and the Raven.Abstractions.dll files, (which you can find in the ~\Client folder of the distribution package) into your Visual Studio project.

The easiest way to add a reference to these DLLs is by using the NuGet Package Manager, which you may use to add the RavenDB.Client package.

Note

NuGet Package Manager is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to add, remove, and update libraries and tools...