mongo-db-databases.md

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Use a MongoDB database in a UWP app	Learn how to connect your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app directly to a MongoDB database and test the connection programmatically.	10/03/2022	article	windows 10, windows 11, uwp, MongoDB, database	medium

Use a MongoDB database

This article contains the steps required to enable working with a MongoDB database from a UWP app. It also contains a small code snippet showing how you can interact with the database in code.

Set up your solution

To connect your app directly to a MongoDB database, ensure that the minimum version of your project targets the Fall Creators update (Build 16299) or newer. You can find that information in the properties page of your UWP project.

Open the Package Manager Console (View -> Other Windows -> Package Manager Console). Use the command Install-Package MongoDB.Driver to install the NuGet package for the official driver for MongoDB. This will allow you to programmatically access MongoDB databases.

Test your connection using sample code

The following sample code gets a collection from a remote MongoDB client, then adds a new document to that collection. Then it uses MongoDB APIs to retrieve the new size of the collection as well as the inserted document, and prints them out. Note that the IP address and database names will need to be customized.

var client = new MongoClient("mongodb://10.xxx.xx.xxx:xxx");
IMongoDatabase database = client.GetDatabase("foo");
IMongoCollection<BsonDocument> collection = database.GetCollection<BsonDocument>("bar");
var document = new BsonDocument
{
     { "name","MongoDB"},
     { "type","Database"},
     { "count",1},
     { "info",new BsonDocument { { "x", 203 }, { "y", 102 } }}
};
collection.InsertOne(document);
long count = collection.CountDocuments(document);
Debug.WriteLine(count);
IFindFluent<BsonDocument, BsonDocument> document1 = collection.Find(document);
Debug.WriteLine(document1.ToString());