C#: How to implement a smart cache

Question

I have some places where implementing some sort of cache might be useful. For example in cases of doing resource lookups based on custom strings, finding names of properties usi

Answer 1

This is a nice debate to have, but depending your application, here's some tips:

You should define the max size of the cache, what to do with old items if your cache is full, have a scavenging strategy, determine a time to live of the object in the cache, does your cache can/must be persisted somewhere else that memory, in case of application abnormal termination, ...