What does Microsoft recommend for 2nd level Caching in Entity Framework?

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Raj picture Raj · Aug 17, 2012 · Viewed 7.4k times · Source

I've used "EF Provider Wrappers" made by Jarek Kowalski. It works fine but I noticed "Limitations and Disclaimers" section where it says:

The providers have not been extensively tested beyond what’s included in the sample code, so you should use them at your own risk.

As with any other sample, Microsoft is not offering any kind of support for it, but if you find bugs or have feature suggestions, please use this blog’s contact form and let me know about them.

I'm little confused here, Does Microsoft really expect developers to use EnityFramework on production websites without any official support (or recommendation) for 2nd level Caching?

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Ladislav Mrnka picture Ladislav Mrnka · Aug 17, 2012

There is no official 2nd level cache support. I'm even not sure if EF Provider wrappers are compatible with .NET 4.5. 2nd level cache is in backlog for future versions of EF.

You can also implement your own solution because EF is fully open sourced.

Btw. I have seen dozens of quite complex web sites running in production without any cache ...

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