MVC Application With MongoDB - Part 1

Step 1: Let’s start with MongoDB server installation for our application. In this application I am using MongoDB 3.0.4 server. The following image indicate the installation of server. Setup files downloaded from MongoDB official website.



Step 2: Now it’s time to check server has installed properly or not on machine. So go to location ‘C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.0\bin’. After successful installation of server bin folder contains the following mentioned files.



Step 3: Start MongoDB.

To start MongoDB, execute the following from the command prompt: C:\ProgramFiles\MongoDB\Server\3.0\bin\mongod

This will start the main MongoDB database process. Now waiting for connections message in the console. Output indicate that mongod.exe running successfully.



Step 4: Connect to MongoDB in order to perform database operations

Run command from new command prompt: C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.0\bin\mongo

Execute command ‘show dbs’ – it shows a list of database present at server.



MVC Application with MongoDB

MVC Application UI: We are going to design the following user interface using MVC & all CRUD operations are performed using MongoDB database, so all the methods which we are going to use are with respect to MongoDB database syntax.



Application Folder & File Structure are as follows:



UserRepositary Model Class File: We are going to use this model class to perform CRUD operation in MongoDB database.

Create Application Database

using MongoDB.Bson;
using MongoDB.Driver;
using MongoDB.Driver.Builders;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

namespace MvcRegistration.Models
{
    public class UserRepositary : IUserRepositary
    {
        ObjectId id = new ObjectId();

        MongoClient client = null;
        MongoServer server = null;
        MongoDatabase database = null;
        MongoCollection UserDetailscollection = null;

        string connectionString = "mongodb://localhost";
        private List<UserModel> _UserList = new List<UserModel>();

        public UserRepositary()
        {
            try
            {
                client = new MongoClient(connectionString);

                server = client.GetServer();

                database = server.GetDatabase("MVCDB");

                UserDetailscollection = database.GetCollection<UserModel>("UserModel");
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
            }
        }
    }
}

Above code will create 'MVCDB' database at MongoDB server.

We can test weather database is created or not using command 'show dbs'.