Getting Started with the Hazelcast .NET Client

In this tutorial you will see how to connect a .NET client to Hazelcast and manipulate a map.

Context

A quick start to use Hazelcast with .NET Client.

Before you Begin

Before starting this tutorial, make sure the following prerequisites are met:

.NET SDK 6.0 or above
Viridian account or Docker
An IDE

Step 1. Start Hazelcast

First, run the latest Hazelcast instance with Docker.

docker run --name hazelcast -p 5701:5701 hazelcast/hazelcast

If you don’t have Docker or don’t want to use it, you can connect to Viridian.

Step 2. Create a .NET Application

Next, in a folder run the command and create a new .NET console application.

dotnet new console -n HazelcastQuickStart --use-program-main

Then, go to the project folder and add a dependency to the Hazelcast.Net NuGet package.

cd HazelcastQuickStart
dotnet add package Hazelcast.Net

Next, you need to provide a logger to the client in order to see its logs. In this example, we will use the console output for logs.

dotnet add package Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Console

Step 3. Using the Map

Now, we can start to coding. Open the project with your IDE, and paste the code below.

using Hazelcast;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

namespace HazelcastQuickStart;

class Program
{
    public static async Task Main(string[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Getting start Hazelcast with .Net Client");

        var options = new HazelcastOptionsBuilder()
            .With(args) // You can pass the args to configure the client.
            .With("Logging:LogLevel:Hazelcast", LogLevel.Information.ToString())
            .With((conf, opt) =>
            {
                // Configure the logger.
                opt.LoggerFactory.Creator = () => LoggerFactory.Create(loggingBuilder =>
                    loggingBuilder.AddConfiguration(conf.GetSection("logging")).AddSimpleConsole());

                // Configure the cluster address.
                opt.Networking.Addresses.Add("127.0.0.1:5701");
            })
            .Build();


        // Create a client instance.
        await using var client = await HazelcastClientFactory.StartNewClientAsync(options);

        // Client is connected and ready.

        // Create a map on the cluster.
        await using var map = await client.GetMapAsync<int, string>("myMap");

        // Now, you can put some data.
        await map.PutAsync(1, "I'm distributed across the cluster.");

        // Data is on cluster.

        // Let's fetch it.
        var myVal = await map.GetAsync(1);

        Console.WriteLine($"Fetched value: {myVal}");
    }
}

Now, you can run the project.

dotnet run

Summary

In this tutorial, we run the Hazelcast and put data thorugh a distributed map. You can visit GitHub page of .NET Client for more examples.