Hi localhost,

Thank you for using Microsoft Newsgroup service. Based on your description,
your have wrote a custom page class which will be used as template for some
other pages. You want to add some code in the template page class so that
you can programmatically control the page's outputcaching. Please correct
me if my understanding of your problem is not accurate.

If my understanding is correct, my suggestion is that you may try out the
caching APIS in provided in .netframework for ASP.NET. Generally, to set
the page output caching, you may use the
<%@ OutputCache Duration="#ofseconds" Location="Any | Client | Downstream |
Server | None" Shared="True | False" VaryByControl="controlname"
VaryByCustom="browser | customstring" VaryByHeader="headers"
VaryByParam="parametername" %>
directive in a certain aspx page. And the dotnet framework also provided a
set of caching APIS for the user to programmatically set these attributes.
These API methos are accessible through the HttpResponse.Cache property,
which is accessible using Response.Cache syntax in the page's code-behind
class or code-declaration block. For example:

Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache); // set the
Cacheability
Response.Cache.SetExpires( expireDate);    //set the expire time for the
outputcache
Response.Cache.SetNoServerCaching();    //stop all the origin cache for the
current response

.................

You can have a look at the following link for more information about the
APIS
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconsettingcacheabilit
yofpage.asp?frame=true

Please try out the preceding suggestion to see whether it helps.

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support