In this post I am going to provide you with a hands-on example on how to use second level caching with Entity Framework 6.0 version. Second Level Caching is one of the features that is not present out-of-the-box in Entity Framework. Second level cache is a query cache. The results of SQL commands are stored in the cache, so that the same SQL ...

If you get an error like: Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application Code: 2153 Category: InitializeError Message: Failed to load a platform extension. Possibly corrupt or invalid file: … when you try to launch your Silverlight application (especially if you have the project set to use an autogenerated test page), you should read: ...

In these series of posts I am going to have a look into the various factors that make our web applications slower and how we can rectify that. Ι have already blogged about caching in this blog and you can find these blog posts below Caching an ASP.Net...(read more)

In this post I will continue my series of posts on caching. You can read my other post in Output caching here .You can read on how to cache a page depending on the user's browser language. Output caching has its place as a caching mechanism. But right...(read more)

The issue of “caching” keeps coming up in my asp.net seminars so I though it would be a good idea to write a post. I know it is a well documented feature and widely used but I really believe most people will be able to use this rather simple example and understand the concepts behind [...]

This is my second post regarding caching in asp.net applications. A friend of mine asked me if he can control caching of an asp.net page depending on the user’s language browser. Let’s see how we can accomplish that with a step by step example. You can use any of the versions of Visual studio (VS [...]

Good news, the 3rd community technology preview of Microsoft’s offering on Caching is out. You can download it here. If you haven’t looked at it yet, now is a good time to start. If on the other hand you’ve already played with it (like me) here’s what’s new in this version. Cache Notifications Using cache notifications, the object in the ...