Installing MongOData using MSI installer

This is the easiest option to start using MongOData with MongoDB. Simply download the installer and run it on a machine with MongoDB and IIS installed. During the installation you can configure Web server virtual directory and MongoDB connection string:

Note that default connection string contains the wild card ‘*’. This syntax is not supported by MongoDB, it indicates that MongOData should expose all MongoDB databases available on the server. The specific database can then be selected by specifying its name in an URL, e.g.:

http://localhost/MongOData/Northwind/$metadata

http://localhost/MongOData/zips/zips

In the examples above we read data from “Northwind” and “zips” database.

In case you don’t want to open OData access to all configured MongoDB databases, you replace the wild card in the installation screen with the name of the specific database, e.g.: mongodb://localhost/Northwind?strict=true. Then only this specific database will be exposed as OData feed.