Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure

Working with Redis from C#

Open up Visual Studio 2017 and create a new console application. Install the Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Redis package using NuGet. Yes, Microsoft has its own package for working with Redis and it includes MVC Core extensions! However, we're using a console application and not an MVC application:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Distributed;// [...]namespace RedisConnection{    internal class Program    {        private static void Main(string[] args)        {            var redisOptions = new RedisCacheOptions            {                Configuration = "[your connection string]",                InstanceName = "[your DNS name]"            };            var options = Options.Create(redisOptions);            // This would be injected in MVC Core.            IDistributedCache cache = new RedisCache(options); cache.SetString("name", ...