Is it possible to use NGen with ClickOnce deployment?

Question

Is it possible to use NGen with ClickOnce deployment?

Answer 1

No, you can not. See http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/clr/thread/a41b62c5-bdee-4bd5-9811-15a35c4a4add/. You need to create a regular installer file for that.

Answer 2

Actually you can use NGEN and clickone, but you are going to need to run the NGEN after the clickonce installation has happened, since NGEN is part of the .NET installation (for 3.5 you should refer to the 2.0 installation). I can send you an example of how to do it if you want

Answer 3

Here is the example, i think is generic enough for you to use it without changing or doing very little changes to the code (except for the call to your form)

static class Program
{
    /// <summary>
    /// The main entry point for the application.
    /// </summary>
    [STAThread]
    static void Main()
    {
        if (ApplicationDeployment.IsNetworkDeployed && ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment.IsFirstRun)
        {

            string appPath = Application.StartupPath;
            string winPath = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("WINDIR");

            Process proc = new Process();
            System.IO.Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(appPath);

            proc.EnableRaisingEvents = false;
            proc.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = false;
            proc.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;

            proc.StartInfo.FileName = winPath + @"\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\ngen.exe";
            proc.StartInfo.Arguments = "uninstall " + Application.ProductName + " /nologo /silent";

            proc.Start();
            proc.WaitForExit();

            proc.StartInfo.FileName = winPath + @"\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\ngen.exe";
            proc.StartInfo.Arguments = "install " + Application.ProductName + " /nologo /silent";

            proc.Start();
            proc.WaitForExit();

        }

        Application.EnableVisualStyles();
        Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
        Application.Run(new Form1());
    }
}

Hope this helps

Answer 4

I'm hiding the messages that ngen displays to the user, if you want to see the messages remove the /silent parameter option from the uninstall and install

If you need more assistance, please let me know