BoxBinary Aspect-Oriented caching for .NET

New Post: Simple example?

thomasabcd — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:02:23 GMT

I stumbled on your presentation at slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/warrenbuckley/pm-an-umbraco5th-presentation-pete and got curious about the project.

I downloaded the files, and it would be really nice, if you could maybe provide a simple example of how to configure and use the cache?

thanks

Thomas

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boxbinary — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:00:48 GMT

Starting to convert over to generics

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boxbinary — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:21:20 GMT

Refactor, clean-out of some old code

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boxbinary — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:33:59 GMT

Really hacky cache iterator added to the sample project in about 2 mins - don't use as an example

Project License Changed

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:14:34 GMT

Copyright (c) 2010 Alex Norcliffe Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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boxbinary — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:45:09 GMT

Creating samples, refactoring to new product name, preparing for conversion to generics / IoC

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boxbinary — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:07:43 GMT

Initial checkin, converted from 0.6.5 of the project when it was previously called BoxBinary WebCacheManager Framework

New Post: New Features

boxbinary — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:28:41 GMT

Wow sorry for some reason I never got notified that you'd posted a message, it's great that you've had success with it. I actually just came back to the project as I'm finishing the two above items since WCMF will be integrated into Umbraco5 so I'm looking at taking it to the next level and re-architecting to support IoC and AOP so you can take cache injection to another level of productivity. What problems / solutions have you found so far that you'd like me to integrate into the framework? Cheers, Alex Norcliffe

New Post: New Features

mmlachak — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:53:32 GMT

This is awesome. Great work. Worked flawlessly. Couple of questions:

When are the new features (MemCached), etc, promised in the roadmap coming
Does this implementation work with .NET 4.0

Looking forward to it...

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boxbinary — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:09:17 GMT

Added placeholders for providers

Updated Wiki: Home

boxbinary — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:27:08 GMT

Project Description
Allows you to take a simple, different, and more effective method of caching items in ASP.NET. The developer defines descriptive categories to decorate their objects, rather than arbitrary timeout values, which are then used by the framework to determine an overall policy.

Devised by Alex Norcliffe in 2007 as part of a personal project, this code has been maintained since and has been in use on very high traffic sites of over 40 million pageviews per month in the past three years and is battle-hardened.
It's 2010 and the time has come to share the code with the community!

Current features:

- Define cache categories in order to describe your objects:
-- Categories can signify that an object is Hi/Medium/Low memory usage, Hi/Medium/Low creation expense, Hi/Medium/Low change frequency
-- The combination of these three weightings, across all objects managed by the DescriptiveCache framework, is then used to determine actual timeout policies on the objects committed to the underlying cache provider.
-- Apply these categories to an object with an attribute, or for more flexibility reference the category name when you're adding the object to cache.
-- Don't worry about cache keys, or arbitrary timeout values ever again!
-- I devised this solution as a way to help large development teams define effective caching policies, since it is difficult for a single developer to know the priority of his/her object's timeout versus another part of the system in development by another member or whole team.

- Supports creating cache categories that cause objects to "survive application restarts" in order to provide lightening-quick cache warmup on app recycle.
-- Objects decorated with this preference are serialized to disk using a threaded queue supporting hundreds of requests per second without causing I/O bottlenecks.

- In-built support for replicating ASP.NET cache items to other web nodes in a load balanced environment.
-- Replication providers built-in:
--- SerializeToReplicationRoot uses the same high-performance serialization queue as above to put CacheBroadcastEvent objects into a folder you may use with DFS, ViceVersa, or another file replication software. The replication root path is used for incoming and outgoing cache broadcasts by using a FileSystemWatcher in your web application's app pool. (Documentation coming soon)
--- WebServiceBroadcast asynchronously notifies other nodes in the web farm by sending the CacheBroadcastEvent object directly to the other machines

- Current underlying caching providers supported: ASP.NET cache
-- Providers coming in February 2010: Memcached (got another preferred one? Suggest it in the Issue Tracker!)

Roadmap / Upcoming features
- Support for Memcached, NCache and ScalableCache will be added as cache providers so the DescriptiveFramework will be able to act on top of these distributed caches (in addition to the cache distribution already built-in)
- Web project demo in the solution
- Commandline test utility
- Adding performance counter hooks

Cheers,
Alex Norcliffe
19 Feb 2010

Updated Wiki: Home

boxbinary — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:26:40 GMT

Updated Release: Initial release (Feb 19, 2010)

boxbinary — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:24:55 GMT

Initial assembly release for anyone wanting the files referenced in my talk at Umbraco's 5th Birthday London meetup 16/Feb/2010

The code is fairly well documented but I will be finishing this, adding a demo web project and an example configuration file in the coming release

Released: Initial release (фев 19, 2010)

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:24:55 GMT

Created Release: Initial release

boxbinary — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:47:51 GMT

Source code checked in, #42183

boxbinary — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:42:26 GMT

Initial checkin

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boxbinary — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:37:46 GMT

Source code checked in, #42169

boxbinary — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:40:24 GMT