ICache.NET

ICache.NET

ICache.NET is a handy generic object caching interface for .NET. Allows runtime dependency-injection of an object caching mechanism, which is handy for switching between dev and production environments, for running unit tests, and for abstracting repository code.

Implementations are currently available for:

• IndexUs SharedCache
• MongoDB
• ASP.NET Session store
• ASP.NET HttpRuntime store
• ASP.NET Request stores
• POCO in-memory dictionaries

Future implementations could include MemCached, SQL Server, file storage, etc.

Planned enhancements include allowing you to specify a "stack" of caching mechanisms, so that when a requested key is not in a given cache, it will fall back to its own backing cache, retrieve it, and store it. This will provide redundancy as well as performance advantages from a stack such as in-memory cache -> remote shared cache -> remote permanent data store -> remote permanent failover store.