How to display the content of asp.net cache?

Question

We have an asp.net MVC web application which uses the HttpRuntime.Cache
object to keep some static lookup values. We want to be able to monitor what\'s
being cached

Answer 1

Use ASP.NET MVC itself.

public ActionResult Index()
{
    return View(HttpRuntime.Cache)
}

and for the view

Html.DisplayForModel()

You will want to use a custom object template (basically take the MVC template and turn off the depth restriction).

http://bradwilson.typepad.com/blog/2009/10/aspnet-mvc-2-templates-part-3-default-templates.html

On the object template you will want to alter

else if (ViewData.TemplateInfo.TemplateDepth > 1) { %>
    <%= ViewData.ModelMetadata.SimpleDisplayText %>

And change the > 1 to either be a higher number like 5-10 or just completely remove this depth check (I'd probably start with a 5 and go from there).