Basic caching questions

Question

I have been going through the setup of caching, to get the initial core functionality working for the last couple days and have not made much progress.
I believe part of the problem is that there is several different types of caching, all called by the same name on websites, so I might be following directions for one type, and then switching to another without knowing it.
I want to set up role caching, and I thought I had it setup, but when I tried to access the cache, I got the error,
{"ErrorCode<ERRCA0042>:SubStatus<ES0001>:Invalid identifier: '[Cache role name or Service Endpoint]'. Check cache rolename/endpoint in configuration."}
I did find that there is a spot in the configurations for filling in this information.  But since I am using role caching, it doesn't seem like it would apply to my situation.
Also, I spent a few hours trying to get windowsAzure.caching 2.5 installed, and no matter what I do, and it installs a debug module that crashes everything if you don't remove it.
So, basically I guess I am lost, and trying to get caching work, and running into issues at every turn.
If you can please tell me why it is asking for distributed caching information when I am trying to use role caching, what I am doing wrong, and where there is an example on the web that actually works with the latest versions.
Well, I got by that particular error, but now just have a new issue.  When it hits the initialization line of code for the cache it never continues.  No error, no break point, try catch doesn't help, just sort of terminates there or something. 
But the program keeps running.
Also, I cant seem to find any example that actually fits for a full code block.  The comments in the web.config said to use the below but intellisense doesn't recognize this code, but does some similar.  However, the initialization class that
it is looking for, does not exist either. 
CacheFactory.LoadConfiguration(name)

Answer 1

Daniel,
If you are trying to use the InRole cache, few steps you might want to verify
1. Enable caching on role. On the Caching tab, select the Enable Caching check box.
2. Install azure caching nuget package, it will add necessary references to your project along with some settings in your configuration file.
3. You will need to specify the name of the identifier in the configuration even if you are using In Role cache. i.e. specify your role name as Identifier.
e.g.
<dataCacheClients>
<tracing sinkType="DiagnosticSink" traceLevel="Verbose"/>
<dataCacheClient name="default">
<autoDiscover isEnabled="true" identifier="WebRole1"/>
</dataCacheClient>
</dataCacheClients>
4. Make sure that you have the data cache client pointing to the same named client which you created in the step 1, by default it is named as 'default'. The cache that’s named default will be returned when, in code, you call the GetDefaultCache method
on the DataCacheFactory object. 
You should be able use the In role caching after all these settings, however about the second issue which you mentioned, I assume it is coming in debug mode when you try to initialize DataCacheFactory class.
You can refer my blog post which talks about same issue and solution
http://passionatetechie.blogspot.com/2014/09/unresponsive-datacachefactory.html
For more information about how you can use In role cache - there is a great documentation, you can refer How to: Use an Azure In-Role Cache in Azure Cloud Service
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj131262.aspx
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