Walkthrough: Retrieving Items from the Cache

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05/09/2013

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This walkthrough demonstrates how to retrieve items from the cache.

To reproduce this demonstration

Configure the cache. For the necessary steps, see "QuickStart Configuration" in Caching QuickStart.
Declare a member variable of type ICacheManager to store the CacheManager object in the QuickStartForm class.
```
private ICacheManager primitivesCache;
```
```
'Usage
Private primitivesCache As ICacheManager
```

In the method that responds to the user's request to read an item from the cache, add the following code.

// Prompt the user for the key of the item to be read.
if (this.selectItemForm.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
  // Read the item from the cache. If the item is not found in the cache, the
  // return value will be null.
  Product product = (Product)this.primitivesCache.GetData(selectItemForm.ItemKey);
}

'Usage
' Prompt the user for the key of the item to be read.
If (Me.selectItemForm.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK) Then
  ' Read the item from the cache. If the item is not found in the cache, the
  ' return value will be null.
  Dim requestedProduct As Product = DirectCast(Me.primitivesCache.GetData(selectItemForm.ItemKey), Product)
End If

Walkthrough: Retrieving Items from the Cache

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