• How to Create Azure CosmosDB Account
• Download the Emulator

1. Start then  All Programs and select "Microsoft Visual Studio".
2. Once the Visual Studio Opens, Then click on Continue Without Code.
3. Then Go to Visual Studio Menu, click on File => New Project then choose ASP.NET Core Web Api Project Template.
4. Then define the project name, location of the project, then click on the next button.
5. On the next screen, provide the additional details: framework, authentication type, and check the Enable Open API Support checkbox as shown below.

The preceding steps will create the ASP.NET Core Web API application and solution explorer. It will look like what is shown in the following image.

Step 4: Add Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos Nuget Package Reference

The Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos is the the latest nuget package to interact with the Azure cosmos DB. The Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos supports the basic to custom and complex database operations, follow the following steps to add the Nuget package.

1. Right click on the Solution Explorer, find Manage NuGet Package Manager and click on it
2. After as shown into the image and type in search box Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos
3. Select Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos as shown into the image, 
4. Choose version of Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos library and click on install button

I hope you have followed the same steps and installed the Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos nuget package.The next step is to delete the default controller and model class so we can start from scratch.

Step 5:Create the Model Class

• First, delete the default model class, which is created outside the folder structure, so we can start from scratch. 
• Next, create the folder named Model by right clicking on the solution explorer.
• Create the model class Employee Model by right clicking on the Model folder, as shown in the following image

Now open the EmployeeModel.cs class file and add the following code.

namespace EmployeeManagement.Model
{
    public class EmployeeModel
    {
        public string? id { get; set; }
        public string? Name { get; set; }
        public string? Country { get; set; }
        public string? City { get; set; }       
        public string? Department { get; set; }
        public string? Designation { get; set; }
        public DateTime? JoiningDate { get; set; }

    }
}

• Define the following route at controller level, so that we can add the multiple Get, Post, Put, or Delete and avoid the name ambiguity exception.

Step 7: Create Method to Add Employee

        [HttpPost]
        public async Task<IActionResult> AddEmployee(EmployeeModel employee)
        {
            try
            {
                var container = ContainerClient();
                var response = await container.CreateItemAsync(employee, new PartitionKey(employee.Department));

                return Ok(response);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {

                return BadRequest(ex.Message);
            }
               
        }

Step 8:  Create Method to Get Employees

        [HttpGet]
        public async Task<IActionResult> GetEmployeeDetails()
        {
            try
            {
                var container = ContainerClient();
                var sqlQuery = "SELECT * FROM c";
                QueryDefinition queryDefinition = new QueryDefinition(sqlQuery);
                FeedIterator<EmployeeModel> queryResultSetIterator = container.GetItemQueryIterator<EmployeeModel>(queryDefinition);


                List<EmployeeModel> employees = new List<EmployeeModel>();

                while (queryResultSetIterator.HasMoreResults)
                {
                    FeedResponse<EmployeeModel> currentResultSet = await queryResultSetIterator.ReadNextAsync();
                    foreach (EmployeeModel employee in currentResultSet)
                    {
                        employees.Add(employee);
                    }
                }

                return Ok(employees);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {

                return BadRequest(ex.Message);
            }
           
        }

Step 9: Create Method to Get Employee by ID

using EmployeeManagement.Model;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos;

namespace EmployeeManagement.Controllers
{
    [ApiController]
    [Route("api/[controller]/[action]")]
    public class EmployeeController : ControllerBase
    {
       
        // Cosmos DB details, In real use cases, these details should be configured in secure configuraion file.
        private readonly string CosmosDBAccountUri = "https://localhost:8081/";
        private readonly string CosmosDBAccountPrimaryKey = "C2y6yDjf5/R+ob0N8A7Cgv30VRDJIWEHLM+4QDU5DE2nQ9nDuVTqobD4b8mGGyPMbIZnqyMsEcaGQy67XIw/Jw==";
        private readonly string CosmosDbName = "EmployeeManagementDB";
        private readonly string CosmosDbContainerName = "Employees";


        /// <summary>
        /// Commom Container Client, you can also pass the configuration paramter dynamically.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns> Container Client </returns>
        private  Container  ContainerClient()
        {

            CosmosClient cosmosDbClient = new CosmosClient(CosmosDBAccountUri, CosmosDBAccountPrimaryKey);
            Container containerClient = cosmosDbClient.GetContainer(CosmosDbName, CosmosDbContainerName);
            return containerClient;
           
        }


        [HttpPost]
        public async Task<IActionResult> AddEmployee(EmployeeModel employee)
        {
            try
            {
                var container = ContainerClient();
                var response = await container.CreateItemAsync(employee, new PartitionKey(employee.Department));

                return Ok(response);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {

                return BadRequest(ex.Message);
            }
               
        }

        [HttpGet]
        public async Task<IActionResult> GetEmployeeDetails()
        {
            try
            {
                var container = ContainerClient();
                var sqlQuery = "SELECT * FROM c";
                QueryDefinition queryDefinition = new QueryDefinition(sqlQuery);
                FeedIterator<EmployeeModel> queryResultSetIterator = container.GetItemQueryIterator<EmployeeModel>(queryDefinition);


                List<EmployeeModel> employees = new List<EmployeeModel>();

                while (queryResultSetIterator.HasMoreResults)
                {
                    FeedResponse<EmployeeModel> currentResultSet = await queryResultSetIterator.ReadNextAsync();
                    foreach (EmployeeModel employee in currentResultSet)
                    {
                        employees.Add(employee);
                    }
                }

                return Ok(employees);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {

                return BadRequest(ex.Message);
            }
           
        }
        [HttpGet]
        public async Task<IActionResult> GetEmployeeDetailsById(string employeeId,string partitionKey)
        {

            try
            {
                var container = ContainerClient();
                ItemResponse<EmployeeModel> response = await container.ReadItemAsync<EmployeeModel>(employeeId, new PartitionKey(partitionKey));
                return Ok(response.Resource);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {

                return BadRequest(ex.Message);
            }

        }
        [HttpPut]
        public async Task<IActionResult> UpdateEmployee(EmployeeModel emp,string partitionKey)
        {

            try
            {

                var container = ContainerClient();
                ItemResponse<EmployeeModel> res = await container.ReadItemAsync<EmployeeModel>(emp.id, new PartitionKey(partitionKey));

                //Get Existing Item
                var existingItem = res.Resource;

                //Replace existing item values with new values 
                existingItem.Name = emp.Name;
                existingItem.Country = emp.Country;
                existingItem.City = emp.City;
                existingItem.Department = emp.Department;
                existingItem.Designation = emp.Designation;

              var updateRes=  await container.ReplaceItemAsync(existingItem, emp.id, new PartitionKey(partitionKey));

                return Ok(updateRes.Resource);

            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {

                return BadRequest(ex.Message);
            }
          
        }

        [HttpDelete]
        public async Task<IActionResult> DeleteEmployee(string empId, string partitionKey)
        {

            try
            {

                var container = ContainerClient();
               var response= await container.DeleteItemAsync<EmployeeModel>(empId, new PartitionKey(partitionKey));
                return Ok(response.StatusCode);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {

                return BadRequest(ex.Message);
            }
        }

    }
}