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Is it possible to use ngen.exe with visual c# express? The examples of ngen that i've seen target a published app's .exe file but c# doesn't seem to publish .exe files. |
| darckeen Monday, October 05, 2009 7:52 PM |
That's ClickOnce deployment by the looks of it. Yeah, I seriously doubt that's going to support ngen. The only other option you have with Express is doing it by hand. You'll need a license to the retail edition to get a real Setup project.
Hans Passant.- Marked As Answer byFigo FeiMSFT, ModeratorMonday, October 12, 2009 9:23 AM
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| nobugz Monday, October 05, 2009 9:00 PM |
ClickOnce won't work with ngen. If you want to do this with the express edition, you'll need to use a custom installer to ngen your application on the user's system. Instead of using a VC Setup project, you can just create your application, and use something like WiX , which does support ngen .
Reed Copsey, Jr. - http://reedcopsey.com- Marked As Answer byFigo FeiMSFT, ModeratorMonday, October 12, 2009 9:23 AM
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| Reed Copsey, Jr. Monday, October 05, 2009 9:17 PM |
Visual C# Express will create an EXE file if your project is an application. If it's a class library, it will create a .DLL file. Once you have the EXE, you can run it through ngen, the same as if you used Visual Studio Pro or Team Editions.
Reed Copsey, Jr. - http://reedcopsey.com |
| Reed Copsey, Jr. Monday, October 05, 2009 8:18 PM |
I'm pretty sure that ngen.exe will take a .dll. What goes wrong when you try?
Hans Passant. |
| nobugz Monday, October 05, 2009 8:24 PM |
Well the app i'm working with is a console application and when i publish it the following files are created:
c:\deploy\MyApp
autorun.inf
MyApp.application
setup.exe
Application Files\
i guess it also installs an actual .exe in some obsifucated directory like:
c:\Users\Darc\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\LJ5YYHBP.HV6\YOM1YQGY.4HV\MyApp_0340996763ae8018_0001.0000_08cbdf7b3a8bd3d8
it this the file i can run ngen.exe on? and if so is there anyway to have setup install the actual .exe to a more accessable directory? |
| darckeen Monday, October 05, 2009 8:46 PM |
That's ClickOnce deployment by the looks of it. Yeah, I seriously doubt that's going to support ngen. The only other option you have with Express is doing it by hand. You'll need a license to the retail edition to get a real Setup project.
Hans Passant.- Marked As Answer byFigo FeiMSFT, ModeratorMonday, October 12, 2009 9:23 AM
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| nobugz Monday, October 05, 2009 9:00 PM |
ClickOnce won't work with ngen. If you want to do this with the express edition, you'll need to use a custom installer to ngen your application on the user's system. Instead of using a VC Setup project, you can just create your application, and use something like WiX , which does support ngen .
Reed Copsey, Jr. - http://reedcopsey.com- Marked As Answer byFigo FeiMSFT, ModeratorMonday, October 12, 2009 9:23 AM
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| Reed Copsey, Jr. Monday, October 05, 2009 9:17 PM |
I think i got yah, basically ngen isn't usable with express because the only publish option in express is one-click. You can work around by using a 3rd party application building program like wix, correct? Took a look at wix and it seems kinda intimidating to install. Mabey the best solution is to install VS 10 pro beta and use that for the mean time. |
| darckeen Tuesday, October 06, 2009 3:54 AM |
Well I installed VS pro beta 10 and when i publish i get the same one click publishing as with express 2008. I'm obviously not dev and i really don't know much about the VS IDE but how can i run ngen on c# code or app generated from c# code as easilly as possible? |
| darckeen Tuesday, October 06, 2009 6:11 AM |
Don't use Publish. You'll need to add a Setup project to your solution. Not sure if the beta has this feature enabled. Beware that you can't get support in a forum when you use early beta versions of a product. The beta1 of VS2010 is not that great and pretty instable in some places. These betas also notoriously screw up your machine because they don't have a good uninstaller yet.
Hans Passant. |
| nobugz Tuesday, October 06, 2009 12:04 PM |
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