How to set up Output Caching in ASP.NET

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What is Output Caching ?

Output caching has enabled developers to store the generated output of pages, controls, and HTTP responses in memory. On subsequent Web requests, ASP.NET can serve content more quickly by retrieving the generated output from memory instead of regenerating the output from scratch.

Limitation :

Generated content always has to be stored in memory, and on servers that are experiencing heavy traffic, the memory consumed by output caching can compete with memory demands from other portions of a Web application.

Role in ASP.NET  5 :

ASP.NET 5 adds an extensibility point to output caching that enables you to configure one or more custom output-cache providers. Output-cache providers can use any storage mechanism to persist HTML content. This makes it possible to create custom output-cache providers for diverse persistence mechanisms, which can include local or remote disks, cloud storage, and distributed cache engines.

You create a custom output-cache provider as a class that derives from the new System.Web.Caching.OutputCacheProvider type. You can then configure the provider in the Web.config file by using the new providers subsection of the outputCache element, as shown in the following example:

<caching>
<outputCache defaultProvider="AspNetInternalProvider">
<providers>
<add name="DiskCache"
type="Test.OutputCacheEx.DiskOutputCacheProvider, DiskCacheProvider"/>
</providers>
</outputCache>
</caching>

By default in ASP.NET 4, all HTTP responses, rendered pages, and controls use the in-memory output cache.You can change the default output-cache provider used for a Web application by specifying a different provider name for defaultProvider.

<%@ OutputCache Duration="60" VaryByParam="None" providerName="DiskCache" %>

Specifying a different output cache provider for an HTTP request requires a little more work. Instead of declaratively specifying the provider, you override the new GetOuputCacheProviderName method in the Global.asax file to programmatically specify which provider to use for a specific request. The following example shows how to do this.

public override string GetOutputCacheProviderName(HttpContext context)
{
if (context.Request.Path.EndsWith("Advanced.aspx"))
return "DiskCache";
else
return base.GetOutputCacheProviderName(context);
}

With the addition of output-cache provider extensibility to ASP.NET 4, you can now pursue more aggressive and more intelligent output-caching strategies for your Web sites. For example, it is now possible to cache the “Top 10” pages of a site in memory, while caching pages that get lower traffic on disk.