Getting a connection to MongoDB database from URL with db name in it

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I have a MongoDB connection string with the DB included. I am currently initializing the collection this way:

var mongoUrl = new MongoUrl(_connectionString);
var mongoClient = new MongoClient(mongoUrl);
var mongoServer = mongoClient.GetServer();
var mongoDatabase = mongoServer.GetDatabase(mongoUrl.DatabaseName);
_defaultCollection = mongoDatabase.GetCollection<Comment>("comments");

This works fine but just seems longer than it should be. Am I missing a less chatty way of doing the same thing?

Thanks Matthew

Roi Tal · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-25 10:00:00Z

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Unfortunately you're not missing out on a thing - it's indeed a cumbersome way of achieving a common task.

I would encourage you to have a look at the excellent open source MongoRepository project which makes such simple tasks a breeze.

answered Oct 25, 2013 at 10:00

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Matthew Nichols Over a year ago

OK great. It is not a big deal as most of it gets written once in a base class and then pretty much ignored...it just seemed like I must be missing something.

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