February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
ASP.NET 4.0 gives you the option to create and utilize custom cache providers. The cache provider can be set at an application, control, and even individual request level (by overriding the GetOutputCacheProviderName() method), offering very fine-grained control.
To create your own cache provider, you must inherit from System.Web.Caching.OutputCacheProvider.
Before you create your own caching system (you crazy fool), you would be wise to take a look into Microsoft's new free distributed caching system, Velocity. Velocity provides a huge amount of functionality and is easily utilized by both web and Windows applications. Velocity presents a view of the cache that can be spread out among many machines and accessed ...