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8/21/2006 4:49 PM
 
Rodney Joyce


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Joined: 4/28/2004
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Hello,

I noticed a rather silly bug in a module where I was using the cache to store some info.
tabID = (int)base.Page.Cache["TabID"];

This is across the entire application and does not take PortalID into account - hence my other portals were retrieving the same value across all Portals (which could be useful sometimes, but I need to cache at Portal level).

I am going to write a little function to store the PortalID AND the data I want cached, but is there a more efficient method? I noticed this class:

DotNetNuke.Services.Cache.CachingProvider cp = new DotNetNuke.Services.Cache.CachingProvider();

Is there a simple caching method to call by Portal or should I use the method I am using currently (ie. parse a string with Portal ID in it in Page.Cache)



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8/23/2006 12:57 PM
 
yannick kiekens

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Joined: 9/13/2004
Posts: 192
just don't use caching to store values!!!

ASP.NET (especially 2.0) has a habit of dumping cache wich it thinks is not important. the Cache does not have a scope (defined lifetime)


You should only use the cache to speed up operations

  1. Check if item is in cache
  2. if so use it
  3. if not get from DB and store in cache
  4. goto 1

You will have problems with your modules, especialy on shared hosts with tight settings.



Use the Application or Session scope (classic ASP style) at least these are guaranteed to stay in scope.


EDIT: use something like this:
 value = Int(Application.Item(String.Format("smartthinker{0}-{1}", TabId, PortalId)))
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8/23/2006 1:06 PM
 
Rodney Joyce


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Sorry - my wording was probably not clear...

Basically my UserLink custom web control does a look-up to see where the UserProfile module is being used and then populates NavigateURL with this TabID. If you bind this in a list it is the same TabID for each row (and generally for each screen. Hence the first time it looks it up it caches it and then checks the cache (all my modules use this control any time they show a UserName so which ever accesses it first caches it).

It was more the use of the core DNN cache object vs ASP's?



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8/23/2006 1:15 PM
 
yannick kiekens

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ah now I see

If I remember correctly, the caching provider abstraction was introduced to enable loadbalancing and webfarms


default, the caching provider uses regular ASP.NET cache, you can also configure it to store to disk (I guess you would install on a share in this case)


so I guess, sindce DNN alows for a choice, you should respect the choices of the host and use the DNN abstraction
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8/24/2006 8:38 AM
 
Vladan Strigo

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Joined: 11/27/2003
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Rodney,

There is DotNetNuke.WebUtility - DataCache, you can use that, although I don't like it.

What I would advise you is to write your own CacheService and make it into your base library for convenience (especially now that we have Generics in .NET 2.0, you can make a rocking CacheService )

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