concurrency and thread safety with appfabric

Question

I am currently working with appfabirc caching using the following methods to interact with the cache:

Get, Put, Remove

I am working with a c# application that have numerous users therefore I am concerned with concurrency and thread safety. I had in place a locking mechanism that uses a locking object when interacting with the cache eg.

lock (object)

{

// cache interaction

}

I am wondering is this required or does appfabric handle thread safety and concurrency? Any assistance with this would be great.

Answer 1

App Fabric Cache has 2 concurrency models:

1. Optimistic Concurrency Model

2. Pessimistic Concurrency Model

You can read more about these concurrency models here - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee790890.aspx

You can also read about concurrenty methods at - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh351387.aspx

Answer 2

Thanks for your assistance with this.