ASP.NET View State Content Optimization Configuration

This page explains configurations for the NCache ViewState Content Optimization feature.

Prerequisites to Configure ASP.NET View State Content Optimization

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To configure ASP.NET View State Content Optimization install the following NuGet packages in your application based on your NCache edition:

Enterprise: AspNet.ViewState.NCache
Professional: AspNet.ViewState.NCache.Professional

Configure View State Content Optimization

To use the content optimization feature of NCache with ASP.NET View State, you need to perform the following steps:

Step 1: Configure app_browser File

Create an app_browser file in the ASP.NET application. It will be created under the directory of app_browsers.
Now plug in page adapters in the app_browser file as follows:

<browsers>
<!-- NCache Plug page adapters in the app browser file as follows:. -->
   <browser refID="Default">
     <controlAdapters>
       <adapter controlType="System.Web.UI.Page"
       adapterType="Alachisoft.NCache.Adapters.PageAdapter">
     </controlAdapters>
   </browser>
</browsers>

Step 2: Configure Web.config File

<configSections>
    <sectionGroup name="ncContentOptimization">

      <section name= "settings"
               type="Alachisoft.NCache.ContentOptimization.Configurations.ContentSettings"
               allowLocation="true"
               allowDefinition= "Everywhere">
    </sectionGroup>
</configSections>

Specify the settings for the registered config section:

<ncContentOptimization>
   <settings
            webAppId="ViewStateApp"
            enableViewstateCaching="true"
            groupedViewStateWithSessions="true"
            maxViewStatesPerSession="5"
            viewstateThreshold="1"
            cacheUriMapping="true"
            enableTrace="false"
            enableMetadataLocking="true"
            enableMinification="true"
            releaseLockInterval="5">

      <cacheSettings cacheName="demoCache" connectionRetryInterval="300">
            <expiration type="Absolute" duration="1" />
      </cacheSettings>

   </settings>
</ncContentOptimization>

Configuration Members

Following are the ASP.NET View State content optimization configuration Members:

Member	Description
`enableViewstateCaching`	Boolean value to enable /disable the View State Caching.
`viewstateThreshold`	Sets the minimum threshold size of `viewstate` in bytes. `Viewstates` which are smaller than the threshold value will not be cached.
`cacheUriMapping`	Cache URL mapping, default value is true.
`enableTrace`	Enable/disable traces.
`cacheName`	Name of the Cache.
`connectionRetyInterval`	An interval after which a cache node tries to re-establish connection, default value is 300 seconds.
`expiration`	Sets the expiration interval in minutes and expiration types either `Sliding`, `Absolute` or `None`.
`duration`	Sets expiration interval in minutes.

Fetch View State Data

If the same cache is being used for ASP.NET View State Caching and other data, View State data can be retrieved by NC_ASP.net_viewstate_data tag. With this tag, it is easy to find the data specific to View State.

Hashtable allViewStateData = cache.SearchService.GetByTag(new Tag("NC_ASP.net_viewstate_data"));

The view state of a particular session can easily be retrieved from the cache based on sessionId.