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AppFabric for caching

It is possible to use appfabric for non web/asp.net caching ?

say instead of ncache/memcached etc.

Solution

  • I have successfully experimented with Microsoft's project "Velocity" for caching in a non-web application. Velocity was the code name for what became AppFabric caching. I have not tried AppFabric caching, because I only have access to Windows XP/Server 2003 systems, and AppFabric requires Vista/7/Server 2008. Looking at the AppFabric caching documentation, I don't see any reason why it would now only work for web applications.