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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

Time for action – creating the World ASP.NET MVC application


You will create a new Visual Studio solution using one of the default templates and then expand it to connect to RavenDB.

  1. Open Visual Studio, create a new ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application project and name it World.

  2. Select the Basic template and keep the Razor view engine selected (the Razor engine is selected by default).

  3. Use the NuGet Package Manager to add the RavenDB Client package.

    Note

    Please ensure that you are using the same versions of the RavenDB server and the RavenDB client in order to avoid version incompatibilities.

  4. Open the Web.config file and add a new connection string for RavenDB.

  5. Add a new Folder to the World application and name it DAL.

  6. Add a new class to World.DAL and name it RavenStore. Then complete it so that it looks like the following code snippet:

    Tip

    To initialize a RavenDB Embedded instance or create the RavenDB shards, you just need to replace the initializing code.

  7. Modify the MvcApplication class in the Global.asax...