How to connect to Redis in a C# .NET project using the NRedisStack client library

Goal

Understand how to connect to Redis using the NRedisStack client library for the C# programming language for the .NET platform.

Solution

The following example demonstrates how to create a scaffold project to connect Redis with the NRedisStack client library for the .NET programming language. To start with the example, download the .NET platform.

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet

Proceed to install and verify that the required version is correctly installed.

dotnet --info

You can now create a new project from scratch (assuming .NET version 8 is installed).

dotnet new console -o redis-test -f net8.0

Install the NRedisStack package, which is required by the example discussed in this document. Choose the desired version.

cd redis-test

dotnet add package NRedisStack --version 0.12.0

Now edit the Program.cs file in the project folder and paste this content:

using NRedisStack;
using StackExchange.Redis;

ConnectionMultiplexer redis = ConnectionMultiplexer.Connect("localhost");
IDatabase db = redis.GetDatabase();

db.StringSet("foo", "bar");
Console.WriteLine(db.StringGet("foo")); 

You can now execute this program as follows:

dotnet run

References

Connect your .NET application to a Redis database