I thought I’d take a quick opportunity to review some of the key highlights form the .NET Webinar, giving out some of the nicer code snippets, and officially introduce our new development tool: VoltDB Studio.

VoltDB.NET in a nutshell

The .NET/C# client library for VoltDB is extremely flexible and allows you to develop WinForms, Console and Web applications and services much as you would do leveraging any other back-end data service or database.

• Connect with a customized connectionstring in your app/web.config.
• Perform Synchronous or Asynchronous data operations using standard .NET design patterns.
• Consume and filter data results using LINQ.
• Leverage

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Deciding whether to handle your workload as a sequential set of synchronous operations or an asynchronous batch isn’t just a .NET topic, but a larger design decision with any VoltDB application. This week we review the pros and cons of each choice in a general context and then as it pertains specifically to your .NET implementations.

By now, you probably have a good idea of how VoltDB works: each partition is its own processing engine, and while, within a partition, work is performed sequentially, each partition is essentially autonomous so that all perform work in parallel.

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I’m happy to introduce our first .NET C# library for VoltDB, which is available for download (full source with samples & documentation) at: https://github.com/VoltDB/voltdb-client-csharp (Latest build-only with documentation from the downloads page).

Today I would like to go over the basics of how you can leverage the library to create a basic client application to connect to your VoltDB server…

There will be more posts in the future, on general best practices, optimized asynchronous application designs or detailed looks at specific features – here I will simply go over the basics to wet your appetite and get you started!

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