December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
11h 41m
English
Unfortunately, the Microsoft extension for a Redis cache is very limited. We can set and get strings and byte arrays (using the SET and GET methods), but Redis allows us to set all kinds of objects and even to alter them. Another popular package you may encounter is ServiceStack.Redis, which is recommended when you're using the full .NET Framework. There's also a .NET Core version of this package called ServiceStack.Redis.Core. In this section, we're going to install it and look at some more advanced scenarios.
First, we need to create a connection. The connection string for ServiceStack is a little bit different from the Microsoft one:
var connectionstring = "redis://[your password]=@[your DNS name].redis.cache.windows.net:6380?ssl=true"; ...