Getting started with MongoDB

Michael wrote in his post about beauty of MongoDB.

I tried to run a couple lines of code and found it very easy to get started with.

There are steps to get there:

1. Download binaries. I  used version 1.2.3 for Win32

2. Create the data folder C:\data\db

3. Run mongod.exe

At this step you have MongoDB running.

4. Download C# driver

5. Create a console application with Visual Studio

6. Add references to driver's dlls

Now you are ready to write code.

I just copies a lines of code from Michale's post into Main method and added console output:

            Console.WriteLine("Create DB:");

            Mongo mongo = new Mongo();

            mongo.Connect();

            IMongoCollection postsTbl = mongo.getDB("BlogDB").GetCollection("Posts");

            Console.WriteLine("Insert data:");

            Document post = new Document();

            post["Tittle"] = "Tittle1";

            post["Timestamp"] = DateTime.Now;

            postsTbl.Insert(post);

            Console.WriteLine("Queries:");

            Document spec = new Document();

            spec["Tittle"] = "Tittle1";

            Document myPost = postsTbl.FindOne(spec);

            Console.WriteLine("Title: " + myPost["Title"]);

            Console.WriteLine("Timestamp: " + myPost["Timestamp"]);

            Console.ReadLine();

Finally run the programm.