"Dave T" wrote:

> The data for my web app is an object model that consists of a class with a
> series of properties typed as generic.list(of SomeClass). The object model
> gets built up along the way by calls to SQL Server. Some of the data is
> global data, some of it is user data. Instead of making multiple calls to
> the DB to get the same data, I was thinking that I could cache the object
> model and retrieve it.
>
> To do that in .net 1.1, I would have done something like this
>
> Dim _GobalData as new GlobalDataObjectModel
> _GobalData = Cache("GlobalData")
> If _GlobalData Is Nothing Then
> _GlobalData = CreateGlobalData
> Cache("GlobalData") = _GlobalData
> End IF
> UseGlobalData()
>
> It seems caching in .net 2.0 is quite different. For one thing, there seems
> to be a problem with my reference to *cache*. Is it possible to do this? If