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API ReferencePostSharp.Patterns.Caching.ImplementationCachingBackendCompact

Open sandbox Open navigation Focus

PostSharp Documentation

Deployment and Configuration

Adding Aspects to Code

INotifyPropertyChanged

Parent/Child, Visitor and Disposable

Developing Custom Aspects

Validating Architecture

Testing and Debugging

PostSharp.Aspects

PostSharp.Aspects.Advices

PostSharp.Aspects.Configuration

PostSharp.Aspects.Dependencies

PostSharp.Aspects.Internals

PostSharp.Aspects.Serialization

PostSharp.Collections

PostSharp.Constraints

PostSharp.Extensibility

PostSharp.Extensibility.BuildTimeLogging

PostSharp.Patterns

PostSharp.Patterns.Caching

PostSharp.Patterns.Caching.Backends

PostSharp.Patterns.Caching.Backends.Azure

PostSharp.Patterns.Caching.Backends.Redis

PostSharp.Patterns.Caching.Dependencies

PostSharp.Patterns.Caching.Formatters

PostSharp.Patterns.Caching.Implementation

CacheCleanupOptions

CacheDependencyInvalidatedEventArgs

CachedMethodInfo

CachedParameterInfo

CacheInvalidator

CacheInvalidatorOptions

CacheItem.Serializer

CacheItemConfiguration

CacheItemConfiguration.Serializer

CacheItemPriority

CacheItemRemovedEventArgs

CacheItemRemovedReason

CacheKeyBuilder

CacheKeyHashingAlgorithm

SupportedFeatures

ContainsDependency

ContainsDependencyAsync

ContainsDependencyAsyncCore

ContainsDependencyCore

ContainsItemAsync

ContainsItemAsyncCore

ContainsItemCore

DisposeAsyncCore

GetItemAsyncCore

InvalidateDependency

InvalidateDependencyAsync

InvalidateDependencyAsyncCore

InvalidateDependencyCore

OnBackgroundTaskEnqueued

OnDependencyInvalidated

RemoveItemAsync

RemoveItemAsyncCore

SetItemAsyncCore

WhenBackgroundTasksCompleted

DependencyInvalidated

CachingBackendEnhancer

CachingBackendEnhancerFeatures

CachingBackendFeatures

CachingBackendStatus

ICacheItemConfiguration

PostSharp.Patterns.Caching.Locking

PostSharp.Patterns.Caching.Resilience

PostSharp.Patterns.Caching.Serializers

PostSharp.Patterns.Caching.ValueAdapters

PostSharp.Patterns.Collections

PostSharp.Patterns.Collections.Advices

PostSharp.Patterns.Contracts

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Adapters.AspNetCore

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Adapters.AspNetFramework

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Adapters.DiagnosticSource

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Adapters.HttpClient

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Audit

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Backends

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Backends.ApplicationInsights

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Backends.Audit

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Backends.CommonLogging

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Backends.Console

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Backends.EventSource

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Backends.Log4Net

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Backends.Microsoft

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Backends.Multiplexer

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Backends.NLog

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Backends.Null

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Backends.Serilog

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Backends.Trace

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Backends.TraceSource

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Contexts

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Correlation

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Custom

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Custom.Messages

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Formatters

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.RecordBuilders

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.ThreadingInstrumentation

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Transactions

PostSharp.Patterns.Diagnostics.Transactions.Model

PostSharp.Patterns.DynamicAdvising

PostSharp.Patterns.Formatters

PostSharp.Patterns.Model

PostSharp.Patterns.Model.Controls

PostSharp.Patterns.Model.TypeAdapters

PostSharp.Patterns.Recording

PostSharp.Patterns.Recording.Operations

PostSharp.Patterns.Threading

PostSharp.Patterns.Threading.Models

PostSharp.Patterns.Utilities

PostSharp.Patterns.Xaml

PostSharp.Reflection

PostSharp.Reflection.MethodBody

PostSharp.Serialization

Method Compact

Compact()

Evicts expired cache items. Used in tests.

Declaration

public void Compact()