Kick Start With Azure Cosmos DB - Part Two

The Azure Cosmos DB Emulator License Agreement window will have opened, you can check the terms of the license agreement and click the Install button.

You can see that the installation process has started now.

After successfully installing Azure Cosmos DB Emulator, click the "Finish" button.

Now, you can get the notification for starting Azure Cosmos DB Emulator service in taskbar area. Also, you can find the icon in the Windows notification tray.

After the Azure Cosmos DB account is started, the "Congratulations! Your Azure Cosmos DB emulator is running" window will be opened in the following screenshot.

• https://localhost:8081/_explorer/index.html

You can learn in this section, how to star the Azure Cosmos DB Emulator on your laptop.

You can go to Start button >> Type Azure Cosmos DB Emulator in the Search Box, then you can see the Azure Cosmos DB Emulator desktop app. Click the Azure Cosmos DB Emulator,

Now, you can get the notification for starting Azure Cosmos DB Emulator service in the taskbar area. Also, you can find the icon in the Windows notification tray.

After the Azure Cosmos DB account has started, the "Congratulations! Your Azure Cosmos DB emulator is running" window will be opened in the following screenshot.

• https://localhost:8081/_explorer/index.html

How to create a new database and collection using Azure Cosmos DB Emulator

You can learn in this section, how to create a new database and collection in Explorer using Azure Cosmos DB Emulator at the following guidelines.

You can go to Explorer - click the New Collections.

The "Add Collection" window will open and you can enter the following details as required for the screenshots. Then, click the OK button.

You can see that the new database and collection looks like in the following screenshot.

How to add data to the collection using Explorer

You will learn in this section, how to add sample data to the collection in Explorer using Azure Cosmos DB Emulator in the local environment.

You can go to Explorer - Expand the TableBooking collection in the Collection window, click the Documents - click the New Document.

The new document window will open and add the data to the collection with the following format.

Once you have added JSON data to the document, click the Save button.

After you have successfully added records to the collection it looks like the following screenshot.