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Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure

You're reading from   Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure Master the art of efficiently composing Azure services and implement them in real-world scenarios

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782173335
Length 352 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Parenzan Marco Parenzan
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Roberto Freato Roberto Freato
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building Basic Services FREE CHAPTER 2. Enhancing the Hybrid Process 3. Building the Frontend 4. Building the Backend 5. Building the Mobile Experience 6. Building the API Layer 7. Working with Messages 8. Deploying Solutions in Azure Index

Building up your web frontend with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC


DocumentDB is a general-purpose database based on NoSQL purposes and features. We can better understand how it works and how it can be used by recreating the classic CRUD application in ASP.NET MVC. We can add a new web project, called WebFrontEnd, of type ASP.NET Web Application to the Visual Studio 2015 solutions. We can choose the .NET 4.6 MVC template. Visual Studio will create the entire web project to which we need to add all the references already added to the SqlToDocumentDb project previously described in this chapter.

ASP.NET MVC is a model-based framework, where the models are C# classes. We can start using DocumentDB as the database backend for the classic CRUD approach. Before starting, in the Web.Config file, add to the project an empty controller named ProductsController. The first thing to add is the DocumentClient accessor for DocumentDB (it is the same as in the previous project):

  private DocumentClient _client;
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