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Duncan made a post about what seems to be a little known fact: You can use Cache outside of a web application. Included in his post is a quick example about how to use Cache by calling HttpRuntime.Cache.

Looking through the comments, you will see a neat GotDotNet sample by Michael Bouck on creating a custom cache object which has no dependency on IIS.

Playing around a minute or two in SnippetCompiler, I came up with my own simple custom cache, which should allow you to take advantage of many Caching features:

using System;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.Caching;



public class MyCache

{

    private MyCache(){}

    

    public static Cache Cache

    {

        get

        {

            return GetCache();

        }

    }

    

    private static Cache GetCache()

    {

        HttpContext context = HttpContext.Current;

        if(context != null)

        {

            return context.Cache;

        }

        else

        {

            return HttpRuntime.Cache;

        }

    }

}