AppFabric Cache Management cmdlet

If you start writing your first couple of codes on AppFabric Caching, you’ve probably started to type the same PowerShell commands. If you are a lazy developer, just like me, you get bored to do the same things. So, here is my handy little PowerShell cmdlet, which will help you to prepare your developer environment:

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#       AppFabricCacheSetup.ps1 PowerShell Cmdlet               #
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# Prepares your AppFabric Cache Cluster environment for         #
# development.                                                  #
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# Fatih Boy, March 2010                                         #
# Version 1.0                                                   #
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Import-Module DistributedCacheAdministration
Use-CacheCluster
$cacheName= Read-Host "Please enter cache name to create (press enter to use default)"

if($cacheName -ne ""){
    New-Cache $cacheName
}

if ((Get-CacheAllowedClientAccounts).IndexOf($env:username) -eq -1) {
    Grant-CacheAllowedClientAccount $env:username
}

Start-CacheCluster

if($cacheName -ne ""){
    Write-Host ""
    Write-Host "$cacheName cache properties : "
    Write-Host "----------------------------------"

    Get-CacheConfig $cacheName
}else{
    Write-Host ""
    Write-Host "default cache properties : "
    Write-Host "----------------------------------"
    Get-CacheConfig default
}

This little cmdlet will –optionally- create a named cache, allows your user to access cache, starts cache cluster, finally display properties of created cache.

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