Work with Azure Redis Cache (Preview) in Development

Question

Is it possible to work with Azure Redis Cache (Preview) on some emulator as with Azure Storages?

From this post Possible to run Azure Caching Preview without emulator? i guess it's possible with devfabric emulator but how configure it?

Answer 1

Azure Redis Cache is not part of the local development Azure Emulator tooling. The StackOverflow entry you're referring to is for the 'other' caching technology Azure provides (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/gg278356.aspx for details and differences).

As Azure Redis Cache service is just a hosted Redis instance, you can or should simply run a local Redis for Windows instance (see http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/06/04/lap-around-azure-redis-cache-preview/).