Using Memcached Cached Provider

Download Memcached Providers release and unzip it. Download Memcached for win32 from http://jehiah.cz/projects/memcached-win32/ for version 1.2.1 and from http://www.splinedancer.com/memcached-win32/ for version 1.2.4. (This version supports multiple Get method). Create a new ASP.net Web Application Project.

Right mouse click on the references folder in the project and click on Add Reference option. Go to the location where Memcached Providers were unzip and select Enyim.Cache.dll, MemcachedProviders.dll & Log4net.dll. Then click OK to add them to the project. Open Web.config file and add the following section to configSections tag
<section name="cacheProvider" type="MemcachedProviders.Cache.CacheProviderSection, MemcachedProviders" allowDefinition="MachineToApplication" restartOnExternalChanges="true"/> <sectionGroup name="enyim.com"> <section name="memcached" type="Enyim.Caching.Configuration.MemcachedClientSection, Enyim.Caching" /> </sectionGroup> <section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler,log4net"/>

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Add the following section to configure Enyims client to point to Memcached servers
<enyim.com> <memcached> <servers> <!-- put your own server(s) here--> <add address="127.0.0.1" port="11211" /> </servers> <socketPool minPoolSize="10" maxPoolSize="100" connectionTimeout="00:00:10" deadTimeout="00:02:00" /> </memcached> </enyim.com>

Add the following section to configure Memcached Cache Provider. keySuffix attribute allows for adding suffix to cache provider keys in order to simulate namespaces.
<cacheProvider defaultProvider="MemcachedCacheProvider"> <providers> <add name="MemcachedCacheProvider" type="MemcachedProviders.Cache.MemcachedCacheProvider, MemcachedProviders" keySuffix="_MySuffix_" defaultExpireTime="2000"/> </providers> </cacheProvider>

Add following section to configure log4net

<log4net> <!-- Define some output appenders --> <appender name="ConsoleAppender" type="log4net.Appender.ConsoleAppender"> <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout"> <conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %-5level %logger [%property{NDC}] - %message%newline" /> </layout> </appender> <!--<threshold value="OFF" />--> <!-- Setup the root category, add the appenders and set the default priority --> <root> <priority value="WARN"/> <appender-ref ref="ConsoleAppender"> <filter type="log4net.Filter.LevelRangeFilter"> <levelMin value="WARN"/> <levelMax value="FATAL"/> </filter> </appender-ref> </root> </log4net>

Add a new aspx page to the project. Switch to code view and add the following line of code.
using MemcachedProviders.Cache;

Now to add an item to memcached write the following line to code

DistCache.Add(strKey, objValue);

To get that item back write the following line of code

DistCache.Get(strKey);

This document is provided under the Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004 http://www.apache.org/licenses/