What is the ASP.NET equivalent to memcached in PHP?

Question

Is there an equivalent in ASP.NET to memcached usage in PHP? Is there even a way I could use memcached from the VB code behind, or something like it?

Answer 1

That would be Microsoft Velocity which has now been rolled into Windows Server AppFabric Caching It's not supported officially yet, but it's there. It's essentially (from what I can figure the same concept as Memcached. It's written as a native Windows Serivce, and you can use it as a state server for session. As an easy example of how it plugs nicely into Asp.Net

Also check this post for discussions on getting Memcached binding from C#.

aside? You might also want to look at the all new and shiny NoSql stuff, depending on what you're trying to accomplish obviously. I'm currently playing with RavenDb but I'm not talking about running my enterprise on it... yet