How do I clear a System.Runtime.Caching.MemoryCache

Question

I use a System.Runtime.Caching.MemoryCache to hold items which never expire. However, at times I need the ability to clear the entire cache. How do I do that?

Answer 1

I ran into this problem too. .Dispose() did something quite different than what I expected.

Instead, I added a static field to my controller class. I did not use the default cache, to get around this behavior, but created a private one (if you want to call it that). So my implementation looked a bit like this:

public class MyController : Controller
{

    static MemoryCache s_cache = new MemoryCache("myCache");

    public ActionResult Index()
    {

        if (conditionThatInvalidatesCache)
        {
            s_cache = new MemoryCache("myCache");
        }

        String s = s_cache["key"] as String;

        if (s == null)
        {
            //do work
            //add to s_cache["key"]
        }

        //do whatever next
    }
}