Basic set up, cant append to stream using .NET client

Clients .NET
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Hi there.

I am trying to do get up in running with EventStoreDb on my local machine.

I prefer to do just the minimal things at the moment. I don’t want to use Docker and I don’t want to have to deal with certificates as I am only using my local machine just doing prototyping/proof of concept work.

I am using windows and installed EventStoreDb server on my machine using Chocolatey.

Unfortunately I dont get any success when following the documentation.

  1. I installed the server (i tried with 23.1.0 and 24.6)
  2. I followed the instructions on this page Getting started | EventStoreDB Documentation
  3. I followed this instruction: “When connecting to an insecure instance, specify tls=false parameter. For example, for a node running locally use esdb://localhost:2113?tls=false. Note that usernames and passwords aren’t provided there because insecure deployments don’t support authentication and authorisation. Creating a client”

However when I try to append to stream I randomly get one of two errors:

Either a RpcException: Status(StatusCode=“DeadlineExceeded”…

Status(StatusCode=“Unavailable”, Detail="Error starting gRPC call. HttpRequestException: An HTTP/2 connection could not be established because the server did not complete the HTTP/2 handshake. (InvalidResponse) HttpIOException: An HTTP/2 connection could not be established because the server did not complete the HTTP/2 handshake. (InvalidResponse) HttpIOException: The response ended prematurely.

Is someone able to assist me in using EventSotreDb without needing to use docker and even certificates as I am only using my local machine. Is this even possible?

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Ok I found the answer here:

Can start with command line --insecure e.g EventStore.ClusterNode.exe --dev --insecure

This is what I did.

Setting the YAML file or environment variable were other options.

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You need to use either --dev or --insecure. Dev mode uses a local certificate, which is trusted. You won’t need tls=false in the connection string in dev mode. If you run an insecure server, then you’d need tls=false in the connection string.

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