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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 – loading a document


You will create the Order class to hold the order data information and will add the LoadOrder()method, which you will call to load an Order document from the RavenDB server:

  1. Open the RavenDB_Ch03 project, add a new class and name it Order.

  2. Add the following code snippet to the Order class:

  3. Add the DisplayOrder() method to the Program class using the following code snippet:

  4. Add the Load<Order>() method to the Program class using the following code snippet:

  5. Save all the files and press F6 to build the solution.

  6. Switch to Windows Explorer and go to the RavenDB installation folder and launch RavenDB server using the Start.cmd command file.

  7. Return to Visual Studio, once the RavenDB server is running, press F5 to run RavenDB_Ch03 to see the document information in the output console window.

What just happened?

You just wrote the necessary code to load your first document from the RavenDB server. Let’s take a look at the code you added to the RavenDB_Ch03 project...