Has anyone got the ASP.NET OutputCache to work on an MVC site on Mono 2.4.2.3? I haven't found any working examples specific to Mono and everything I try fails on Mono (but works on the ASP.NET development server).
I have tried putting declarations like this at the top of the Views:
<%@ OutputCache Duration="10" VaryByParam="None" Location="ServerAndClient" %>
The above works on standard ASP.NET pages but not when applied to MVC pages. I've been testing on the sample MVC site you get when creating a new MVC project in Visual Studio.
As I understand it, the usual way to enable caching in MVC websites is to attach an attribute to an action or controller. E.g.:
[OutputCache(VaryByParam = "None", Duration = 15, Location = System.Web.UI.OutputCacheLocation.ServerAndClient)]
public ActionResult Index()
{
ViewData["Message"] = "Welcome to ASP.NET MVC!";
return View();
}
Steve Sanderson has blogged about an alternative way to cache output from MVC (to work around other limitations which we're not interested in at the moment):
http://blog.codeville.net/2008/10/15/partial-output-caching-in-aspnet-mvc/Using the alternative (non-reflective) version of his code I have managed to get a working caching system in place but it would be nice to be able to use the standard ASP.NET version since we're really not trying to do anything clever, just cache the output of generally static pages to improve performance.
Am I just missing something obvious? Do I need to "switch on" caching in MVC somehow?
Any tips or pointers to documentation or examples on this topic would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris
