Comments on: Caching Data for Windows Applications

By: Alin

Alin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:28:49 +0000

Hi,

There is a problem. Expired items a not removed from Dictionary. So after a long time I memory are a lots of items that are expired.
So it is necesary a method to remove those items.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:10:54 +0000

Nice stuff.

Some changes I made was to add the indexed default property so I can use Cache["Key"], if trying to insert null then remove the key (if it exists) and I replaced INFINITE with Timeout.Infinite (from System.Threading).

Thanks!

By: Eddmartinez

Eddmartinez — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:13:49 +0000

Great Work Gerhard! Yes Microsoft preferred ASP.NET cache and it is very good in its performance but only in its single server environment. But now Microsoft also realized and starts working on distributed caching. Because distributed caching is scalable and highly reliable as compared to traditional caching.

By: test

test — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:51:36 +0000

INTRODUCTION
The System.Web.Caching.Cache object in the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and in the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 is not intended for use outside Microsoft ASP.NET. The Cache object was designed and tested for use by ASP.NET to provide ASP.NET caching. If you try to use Cache objects in other types of applications, such as console applications or Windows Forms applications, the Cache objects may not work correctly.

Note The specific problem that is described in the “More Information” section does not occur in the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. Therefore, you can use the Cache object outside ASP.NET in the .NET Framework 2.0. However, we recommend that you consider using the Caching Application Block because it offers you more options for customization to meet application requirements.

MORE INFORMATION
You cannot create a System.Web.Caching.Cache object on an operating system that does not have ASP.NET installed. C

By: sandip

sandip — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:33:44 +0000

Nice!!!

By: Gerhard

Gerhard — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:35:58 +0000

Kumar, download the example and you’ll see.

By: Kumar

Kumar — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:19:10 +0000

You wrote a cache class? I see you initializing the Cache object Are you saying you wrote [i]that[/i] class?

By: ID-10-T

ID-10-T — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:54:38 +0000

Ah, you CAN use System.Web.Caching.Cache outside of ASP.NET (e.g., from a Winforms app or a console app). Get your facts straight.

By: Felix Prangishvili

Felix Prangishvili — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:49:19 +0000

Good clean code. Wanted to write it myself recently but now don’t see why I should. Thanks.
The only thing though is that it would be nice to have a method which would compact the cache either explicitly (i.e. through a direct call to the method) or on a scheduled basis at predetermined intervals (with the interval settings passed in the constructor, for instance). Also, a property enabling/disabling the autocompacting would be feasible, I guess. But again, great job, thanks a lot!