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Guide to NoSQL with Azure Cosmos DB

You're reading from   Guide to NoSQL with Azure Cosmos DB Work with the massively scalable Azure database service with JSON, C#, LINQ, and .NET Core 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612899
Length 214 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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Daron Yöndem Daron Yöndem
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Preface 1. Introduction to NoSQL in Cosmos DB 2. Getting Started with Cosmos DB Development and NoSQL Document Databases FREE CHAPTER 3. Writing and Running Queries on NoSQL Document Databases 4. Building an Application with C#, Cosmos DB, a NoSQL Document Database, and the SQL API 5. Working with POCOs, LINQ, and a NoSQL Document Database 6. Tuning and Managing Scalability with Cosmos DB 7. Answers 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Retrieving a document with an asynchronous query


The following lines declare the code for the GetCompetitionByTitle asynchronous static method, which builds a query to retrieve a competition with a specific title from the document collection. The code takes advantage of the possibilities offered by the SDK to limit the number of results returned by the query and execute the query with an asynchronous execution. The code adds complexity to work with an asynchronous execution. We don't want to run a query with a synchronous execution in our examples. Add the following lines to the existing code of the Program.cs file. The code file for the sample is included in the learning_cosmos_db_04_01 folder in the dot_net_core_2_samples/SampleApp1/SampleApp1/Program.cs file:

private static async Task<dynamic> GetCompetitionByTitle(string competitionTitle) 
{ 
    // Build a query to retrieve a document with a specific title 
    var collectionUri = UriFactory.CreateDocumentCollectionUri(databaseId...
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