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I am trying to run MongoDB with my Visual Studio ASP.NET MVC 5 project. My question is: how do I tell Visual Studio the name of the database that I want to use?

So far, I have the following in the <appSettings> of Web.config:

<add key="DbName" value="db1" />

Then, I run the mongod command to start MongoDB, and then run the Visual Studio debugger. It shows me a page I have written which allows me to register a user, which should create some entries in the database. However, when I go to the MongoDB shell by running mongo, and type in show dbs, I get the following:

ASPNETDB 0.078GB
admin (empty)
local 0.078GB

And there is no sign of the db1 database I specified before.

Please can someone explain where how I specify the name of the database I want to use?

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  • Mongo does not have Tables, it has Collections! Commented Jun 18, 2014 at 12:28

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that is normal specified in the web.config file under connectionStrings like

<add name="MongoHQ"
     connectionString="mongodb://<user>:<pwd>@<host>:<port>/<collection>" />

and then using MongoDB drivers you can easily connect as

var server = MongoServer.Create(connectionStringFromConfig).GetDatabase("your_db");

but you can find all documentation in mongoDB docs

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