Output Caching
Output caching is the caching of pages or
portions of pages that are output to the client. This does not happen
automatically -- the developer must enable output caching using
either the OutputCache
page directive or the
HttpCachePolicy class. Both methods will be described.
Output caching can be applied to an entire page or a portion of the page. In order to cache only a portion of a page, the caching is applied to a user control contained within the page. This too will be described later in this section.
The OutputCache Page Directive
The OutputCache
page directive, like all page
directives, goes at the top of the page file. (For a complete
description of page directives, see Chapter 6.) A
typical example of an OutputCache
page directive
looks something like the following:
<%@ OutputCache Duration="60" VaryByParam="*" %>
The full syntax is:
<%@ OutputCache Duration="number of seconds" VaryByParam="parameter list" Location="location" VaryByControl="control list" VaryByCustom="custom output" VaryByHeader= "header list" %>
Only the first two parameters, Duration
and
VaryByParam
, are required
The VaryBy
... parameters allow different versions
of the cached page to be stored, with each version satisfying the
combination of conditions being varied.
The various parameters are described in the following sections.
Duration
The Duration
parameter specifies the number of seconds that the page or user control is cached. Items placed in the output cache are only valid for this ...
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