How to: Remove an Object from Cache (Velocity)

The following examples show the ways you can remove objects from the cache. These procedures assume that you have already set up your cache cluster and have prepared your development environment to write cache-enabled applications. For more information about how to do this, see Installation and Deployment (Velocity) and How to: Prepare the Development Environment (Velocity).

For more details about the methods that are used in these examples, see these class library topics:

Remove

Item

Data in the cache is not encrypted and is available to any cache client with the appropriate configuration settings. We highly recommend that you secure the XML-based application configuration files, if used, to specify the cache client.

To remove an object from the cache
Make sure that the using statement (Imports in Visual Basic) is at the top of your application code to reference the Microsoft.Data.Caching namespace.

Create a DataCacheFactory object that is accessible to all parts of the application that need a cache client. We recommend reusing the same DataCacheFactory object to conserve memory and optimize performance.

Use the DataCacheFactory object to create a DataCache object (also referred to as the cache client) if you have not already done this. In the following examples, the DataCacheFactory instance is called CacheFactory1.

After you have the DataCache object, the Remove method or Item property may be used to remove an object from cache.

Example
The following example uses the Remove method to remove an object from cache.

Note 
There are many other parameters available for this method. See the Remove class library for more information.

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//remove object in cache using key "Key0"
myCache.Remove("Key0");

The following example uses the Item property that has array notation to remove an object from cache.

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//remove object in cache using array notation
myCache["Key0"] = null;