class Example {
        public static void Main(string[] args) {
            //---------------------
            // Setting up a client.
            //---------------------
            Console.Out.WriteLine("Setting up Memcached Client.");
            MemcachedClient.Setup("MyCache", new string[] { "localhost" });

            //It is possible to have several clients with different configurations:
            //If it is impossible to resolve the hosts, this method will throw an exception.
            try {
                MemcachedClient.Setup("MyOtherCache", new string[]{ "server1.example.com:12345", "server2.example.com:12345"});
            } catch (Exception e) {
                Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
            }

            //Get the instance we just set up so we can use it. You can either store this reference yourself in
            //some field, or fetch it every time you need it, it doesn‘t really matter.
            MemcachedClient cache = MemcachedClient.GetInstance("MyCache");

            //It is also possible to set up clients in the standard config file. Check the section "beitmemcached" 
            //in the App.config file in this project and you will see that a client called "MyConfigFileCache" is defined.
            MemcachedClient configFileCache = MemcachedClient.GetInstance("MyConfigFileCache");

            //Change client settings to values other than the default like this:
            cache.SendReceiveTimeout = 5000;
            cache.ConnectTimeout = 5000;
            cache.MinPoolSize = 1;
            cache.MaxPoolSize = 5;

            //----------------
            // Using a client.
            //----------------

            //Set some items
            Console.Out.WriteLine("Storing some items.");
            cache.Set("mystring", "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.");
            cache.Set("myarray", new string[]{"This is the first string.", "This is the second string."});
            cache.Set("myinteger", 4711);
            cache.Set("mydate", new DateTime(2008, 02, 23));
            //Use custom hash
            cache.Set("secondstring", "Flygande b鋍kasiner s鰇a hwila p?mjuka tufvor", 4711);

            //Get a string
            string str = cache.Get("mystring") as string;
            if (str != null) {
                Console.Out.WriteLine("Fetched item with key: mystring, value: " + str);
            }

            //Get an object
            string[] array = cache.Get("myarray") as string[];
            if (array != null) {
                Console.Out.WriteLine("Fetched items with key: myarray, value 1: " + array[0] + ", value 2: " + array[1]);
            }

            //Get several values at once
            object[] result = cache.Get(new string[]{"myinteger", "mydate"});
            if (result[0] != null && result[0] is int) {
                Console.Out.WriteLine("Fetched item with key: myinteger, value: " + (int)result[0]);
            }
            if (result[1] != null && result[1] is DateTime) {
                Console.Out.WriteLine("Fetched item with key: mydate, value: " + (DateTime)result[1]);
            }

            str = cache.Get("secondstring", 4711) as string;
            if (str != null) {
                Console.Out.WriteLine("Fetched item with key and custom hash: secondstring, value: " + str);
            }

            //Set a counter
            Console.Out.WriteLine("Setting an item for incrementing and decrementing.");
            cache.SetCounter("mycounter", 9000);
            ulong? counter = cache.GetCounter("mycounter");
            if (counter.HasValue) {
                Console.Out.WriteLine("Fetched mycounter, value: " + counter.Value);
            }

            //Increment the counter
            counter = cache.Increment("mycounter", 1);
            if (counter.HasValue) {
                Console.Out.WriteLine("Incremented mycounter with 1, new value: " + counter.Value);
            }

            //Decrement the counter
            counter = cache.Decrement("mycounter", 9000);
            if (counter.HasValue) {
                Console.Out.WriteLine("Decremented mycounter with 9000, new value: " + counter.Value);
            }

            //Append and prepend
            Console.Out.WriteLine("Storing bar for append/prepend");
            cache.Set("foo", "bar");
            Console.Out.WriteLine("Appending baz");
            cache.Append("foo", " baz");
            Console.Out.WriteLine("Prepending foo");
            cache.Prepend("foo", "foo ");
            Console.Out.WriteLine("New value: " + cache.Get("foo"));

            //Cas
            cache.Delete("castest");
            Console.Out.WriteLine("Trying to CAS non-existant key castest: " + cache.CheckAndSet("castest", "a", 0));
            Console.Out.WriteLine("Setting value for key: castest, value: a");
            cache.Set("castest", "a");
            Console.Out.WriteLine("Trying to CAS key castest with the wrong unique: " + cache.CheckAndSet("castest", "a", 0));
            ulong unique;
            cache.Gets("castest", out unique);
            Console.Out.WriteLine("Getting cas unique for key castest: " + unique);
            Console.Out.WriteLine("Trying to CAS again with the above unique: " + cache.CheckAndSet("castest", "b", unique));
            string value = cache.Gets("castest", out unique) as string;
            Console.Out.WriteLine("New value: " + value + ", new unique: " + unique);

            Console.Out.WriteLine("Displaying the socketpool status:");
            foreach (KeyValuePair<string, Dictionary<string, string>> host in cache.Status()) {
                Console.Out.WriteLine("Host: " + host.Key);
                foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> item in host.Value) {
                    Console.Out.WriteLine("\t" + item.Key + ": " + item.Value);
                }
                Console.Out.WriteLine();
            }

            Console.Out.WriteLine();
            Console.Out.WriteLine("Finished. Press enter to exit.");
            Console.In.ReadLine();
        }
    }