How to share Cache between applications

[Marshal Antony]

Hi,
I would like to share cache information among different
applications(ASP.NET applications with its own
virtual directories) in IIS 6.0.As the Cache is per
application basis,how can I achieve this?
I know web services is an option but I security may be an
issue.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Marshal Antony

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Basically, you can't. Application Cache is specific to the machine on which
the app is running. What you CAN do is to store "global" information in a
database, such as SQL Server.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
http://www.takempis.com
Big Things are made up of
Lots of Little Things.

 

[Marshal Antony]

Kevin,
Thanks for your reply.
I need to share Cache between applications in a
single machine only not in multiple machines.
As the Cache in each application in the same machine is
different,can we design a mechanism where all the
applications can read from a common cache in the
same machine?.This will help because for
example if I want to share Customer information among applications in
the same machine I need to store it
in only single cache as a dataset so that I can save memory.
Thanks in advance for your comment on this.
Marshal

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Hi Marshal,

Again, I think using a database to store such "shared" data would be the
best approach. You can't cross Application boundaries, and that memory space
is all that will be available to each Application.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
http://www.takempis.com
Big Things are made up of
Lots of Little Things.

 

[Marshal Antony]

Kevin,

Thanks for your opinion on this.
I agree database is the best way to go as I can't cross application
boundaries.
Thanks again,
Marshal