I’ve been beavering away at a little website and decided – after a bit of investigation and then seeing Scott Guthrie talk at Azurecraft, London – to use DocumentDb for the data storage. At that point I didn’t have a massive amount of experience with NoSQL databases, but when I want to learn something I like to dive straight in, start coding, making mistakes, and hopefully come out the other side with some workable knowledge.
The website is node.js based, and I found the initial setup of DocumentDb pretty straight forward after running the the tutorials. I was up and running quickly, but I soon realised I wanted a tool for developing and testing queries, and playing around with my dev database. The Azure portal isn’t massively geared up for this. I saw one application, but even in this web/cloudy world I knew that with my arsenal of Material Design In XAML Toolkit and Dragablz libraries, I could throw together a desktop app to grease the gears of developing the web app.
Yesterday I published the first full alpha release of that effort. “doobry” is simple to use, yet slick and pretty feature rich. With it you can:
- Edit and run SQL queries
- Create, edit, copy and delete collection documents
- Work with multiple databases
It’s open source, free to use, and an installer is available:
It’s also a great showcase of all the things you can do with Material Design In XAML and Dragablz, utilizing features such as:
- Docking and layout persistance
- Advanced dialogs
- Transitions
Hopefully if you are using DocumentDb this tool will help you get along in your development and support tasks. And if you are developing WPF Material Design/Dragablz applications you might find some UX inspiration and helpful XAML techniques within the source.
dragablz.net 
It seems very useful, let me tell you that I’ll test your resource. Cheers! 🙂
PD: I’m a fan of your works 😉
Will add some more features in Jan… Stay tuned!