Store data into Cache in ASP.NET MVC

Updated on September 8, 2015     Kisan Patel

Storing data into Cache in ASP.NET MVC is not as straightforward as it was in ASP.NET Web Form where we used to use Cache[“key”] and value.

Here, we will need to use HttpContext.Cache object and remaining approach are same.

Controller Code :

public ActionResult CacheOutput()
{
    if (HttpContext.Cache["CurrentDate"] == null)
    {
        HttpContext.Cache["CurrentDate"] = DateTime.Now;
    }  
    ViewBag.DateTime = HttpContext.Cache["CurrentDate"];
    return View();
}

» In this action method it first checks for the null value in HttpContext.Cache["CurrentDate"] and it its null then saves current date in the Cache.

» Next line simply keep the data from the Cache into ViewBag.DateTime. so now you can get your ciewBag in view and pring that datetime in it.

View As :

Cached time is : @ViewBag.DateTime