• Support for non-relational data stores and in-memory data
• Support for Windows Phone and Windows Store applications
• Support for Linux and Macintosh machines 

{
    "dependencies": {
        "Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.SqlServer": "1.1.0"
    },
    "tools": {
        "Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.SqlConfig.Tools": "1.1.0-preview4-final"
    }
}

 dotnet sql-cache create "Data Source=(localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB;Initial Catalog=sql_cache;Integrated Security=True;" "dbo" "AppSqlCache"

CREATE TABLE AppSqlCache (
    Id                         NVARCHAR (449)  COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS NOT NULL,
    Value                      VARBINARY (MAX) NOT NULL,
    ExpiresAtTime              DATETIMEOFFSET  NOT NULL,
    SlidingExpirationInSeconds BIGINT          NULL,
    AbsoluteExpiration         DATETIMEOFFSET  NULL,
    CONSTRAINT pk_Id PRIMARY KEY (Id)
);

CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX Index_ExpiresAtTime
    ON AppSqlCache(ExpiresAtTime);

    public class AppSqlCache
    {
        public string Id { get; set; }
        public byte[] Value { get; set; }
        public DateTimeOffset ExpiresAtTime { get; set; }
        public long? SlidingExpirationInSeconds { get; set; }
        public DateTimeOffset? AbsoluteExpiration { get; set; }
    }

    public class MyDBDataContext : DbContext
    {
        public virtual DbSet<AppSqlCache> AppSqlCache { get; set; }

        protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
            modelBuilder.Entity<AppSqlCache>(entity =>
            {
                entity.ToTable(name: "AppSqlCache", schema: "dbo");
                entity.HasIndex(e => e.ExpiresAtTime).HasName("Index_ExpiresAtTime");
                entity.Property(e => e.Id).HasMaxLength(449);
                entity.Property(e => e.Value).IsRequired();
            });
        }
    }

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddDistributedSqlServerCache(options =>
    {
        options.ConnectionString = @"Data Source=(localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB;Initial Catalog=sql_cache;Integrated Security=True;";
        options.SchemaName = "dbo";
        options.TableName = "AppSqlCache";
    });

public IActionResult Index()
{
   HttpContext.Session.SetString("User", "VahidN");
   return Json(true);
}

public IActionResult About()
{
   var userContent = HttpContext.Session.GetString("User");
   return Json(userContent);
}

 services.Add(ServiceDescriptor.Singleton<IDistributedCache, SqlServerCache>());

using System;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Distributed;
 
namespace Core1RtmEmptyTest.Controllers
{
    public class CacheTestController : Controller
    {
        readonly IDistributedCache _cache;
        public CacheTestController(IDistributedCache cache)
        {
            _cache = cache;
        }
 
        public IActionResult SetCacheData()
        {
            var time = DateTime.Now.ToLocalTime().ToString();
            var cacheOptions = new DistributedCacheEntryOptions
            {
                AbsoluteExpiration = DateTime.Now.AddYears(1)
 
            };
            _cache.Set("Time", Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(time), cacheOptions);
            return View();
        }
 
        public IActionResult GetCacheData()
        {
            var time = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(_cache.Get("Time"));
            ViewBag.data = time;
            return View();
        }
 
        public bool RemoveCacheData()
        {
            _cache.Remove("Time");
            return true;
        }
    }
}

  Value  VARBINARY (MAX) NOT NULL,

  public byte[] Value { get; set; }

<distributed-cache name="MyCacheItem2" expires-sliding="TimeSpan.FromMinutes(30)">
    <p>From distributed-cache</p>
    @DateTime.Now.ToString()
</distributed-cache>

The key highlights to cover this month include:

• Announcing SQL Server 2019 support
• New notebook features
  • Announcing PowerShell notebooks
  • Announcing collapsible code cells
  • Performance improvements in notebooks
• Announcing Jupyter Books
• General availability of Schema Compare and SQL Server Dacpac extensions
• Announcing Visual Studio IntelliCode extension
• Bug fixes 

.NET 8 Preview 4 is now available and includes many great new improvements to ASP.NET Core.

Here’s a summary of what’s new in this preview release:

Blazor

Streaming rendering with Blazor components

Handling form posts with Blazor SSR

Route to named elements in Blazor

Webcil packaging for Blazor WebAssembly apps

API authoring

Expanded support for form binding in minimal APIs

API project template includes .http file

Native AOT

Logging and exception handling in compile-time generated minimal APIs

ASP.NET Core top-level APIs annotated for trim warnings

Reduced app size with configurable HTTPS support

Worker Service template updates

Additional default services configured in the slim builder

API template JSON configuration changes

Support for JSON serialization of compiler-generated IAsyncEnumerable unspeakable types

Authentication and authorization

Identity API endpoints

Improved support for custom authorization policies with IAuthorizationRequirementData

ASP.NET Core metrics

For more details on the ASP.NET Core work planned for .NET 8 see the full ASP.NET Core roadmap for .NET 8 on GitHub. 

The following high-level features are planned for the ASP.NET Core 2.1 release:

SignalR - Real-time web framework on ASP.NET Core (aspnet/SignalR#394)
HTTPS - On by default and easy to configure (aspnet/Home#2308)
GDPR compliance - Templates updated with new privacy features (aspnet/Security#1561, aspnet/Identity#1341)
Web API conventions - Rich Swagger support without attributes (aspnet/Mvc#6870, aspnet/Mvc#6784)
IHttpClientFactory - HttpClient as a service, handle cross-cutting concerns like caching, retry logic, timeouts and circuit breakers (aspnet/HttpClientFactory#42)
ASP.NET Core Module in-proc hosting - 6x the throughput on IIS! Better startup error handling (aspnet/AspNetCoreModule#265)
Razor pages improvements - Support for areas, ~/Pages/Shared (aspnet/Mvc#6926, aspnet/Mvc#7193)
MVC functional test fixture - Easily test your MVC apps end-to-end (aspnet/Mvc#6233)
Build-time Razor - Compile Razor pages and views as part of your build, improved startup performance (aspnet/Razor#1809)
UI as a library - Package Razor pages and views as reusable libraries (aspnet/Razor#1809)
Identity UI package and scaffolder - Add identity to any application (aspnet/Home#2311)
WebHooks - Handle WebHook notifications from ASP.NET Core apps (aspnet/WebHooks#5)

Here’s a summary of what’s new in this preview release:

• Improved startup debugging experience
• Blazor
  • Form model binding & validation with server-side rendering
  • Enhanced page navigation & form handling
  • Preserve existing DOM elements with streaming rendering
  • Specify component render mode at the call site
  • Interactive rendering with Blazor WebAssembly
  • Sections improvements
  • Cascade query string values to Blazor components
  • Blazor Web App template option for enabling server interactivity
  • Blazor template consolidation
• Metrics
  • Testing metrics in ASP.NET Core apps
  • New, improved, and renamed counters
• API authoring
  • Complex form binding support in minimal APIs
• Servers & middleware
  • HTTP.sys kernel response buffering
  • Redis-based output-cache