Getting Started with Microsoft Cosmos DB Using C#: Cloud Database Support for .NET Applications

This video introduces Cosmos DB and highlights the benefits that using Cosmos DB can bring to your applications and clients. Watching this video helps to increase your toolbox of knowledge around Azure and build your skills on this important cloud platform. Examples in the video are built in C#, the language from which Cosmos DB is most commonly used. A running example throughout the video demonstrates the basics of entering data, querying and updating data, deleting data, and working with the Cosmos DB change feed.

What You Will Learn

Understand Cosmos DB and when it should be used
Become familiar with the different APIs that are available
Create a new service in Azure in support of a Cosmos DB database
Develop applications locally using C# and the Table API
Create a database and add data to it
Query, update, and delete data as needed
React to events and streaming data with the change feed

Who This Video Is For

Developers with knowledge of C#, but who have not used Cosmos DB before and who would like to know more about it and the scenarios in which Cosmos DB is useful. For developers who have come from a relational database background and want to understand how Cosmos DB can be used differently from the relational databases to which they are accustomed.