Location of the ASP.NET Cache
asp.net, caching, iis-7
Solution
You configure where Session data gets stored in your `web.config` with the sessionState element. If set to `InProc`, it will be stored in memory in the `w3wp.exe` process that corresponds to your application's App Pool. You could also, for example, store it in a SQL Server instance.
If that element isn't defined in your config file, check out the machine level `web.config` for your target framework version / architecture.
Problem
How/where is the ASP.NET cache managed in IIS 7? I know that it's stored in the server's memory, but what is the process that manages it? Is it in the address space of w3wp.exe, or is it in another process/location? And does Session data use the cache, or does Session work differently?