UserControl caching

[GoTerps88]

I am hosting a usercontrol on a masterpage that builds a dynamic menu based on the user name I retrieve based on the user's windows logon. I have a table in the database that retrieves role information based on their logon id.

I want to display this usercontrol based on the user's logon, which I have captured in a session object. Different users will have different menu items based on their role in the database.

I am not using the menu control shipped with ASP.NET. I'm using an Oracle database, which doesn't lend itself well to building a membership provider.

How should I approach building a fragment cached user control in this scenario that display a different cached user control based on the user's logon?

 

[GoTerps88]

I seem to have gotten it working. I set the user control's VaryByControl property to a public string defined in the code file.

Then on the master page's load event I set the user control's property to the user's logon string. I remembered that you cannot access a user control's properties once it is cached, so I just check first to determine if the user control is null.

It seems to work for now, but I'll continue to test it.