Question

So, in my WCF service, I will be caching some data so future calls made into the service can obtain that data.

what is the best way in WCF to cache data? how does one go about doing this?
if it helps, the WCF service is multithreaded (concurrency mode is multiple) and ReleaseServiceInstanceOnTransactionComplete is set to false.

the first call to retrieve this data may not exist therefore it will go and fetch data from some source (could be DB, could be file, could be wherever) but thereafter it should cache it and be made available (ideally with an expiry system for the object)

thoughts?

Answer 1

Some of the most common solutions for a WCF service seem to be:

• Windows AppFabric
• Memcached
• NCache

Try reading Caching Solutions