I thought NGen was done in the background with a separate process. By marking NGen pri-0 you've probably just slowed down the Windows Installer's "Removing backup files" due to disk contention. I could remember the NGen stuff wrong though...
Glenn Jones wrote: > Hi, > > We have a WiX installer that ngens dlls using priority 0 (immediate > ngen). We use priority 0 because the start-up time of our product > increases with non-ngened assemblies and we'd like to make a good first > impression. When the installer does the ngenning, it stops with the > message "Removing backup files". We'd like to change the message to > something like "Optimizing performance. This may take a few minutes". We > have tried including the following in our UI: > <ProgressText > Action="NetFxExecuteNativeImageCommitInstall">NetFxExecuteNativeImageCommitInstall</ProgressText> > <ProgressText > Action="NetFxExecuteNativeImageInstall">NetFxExecuteNativeImageInstall</ProgressText> > <ProgressText > Action="NetFxScheduleNativeImage">NetFxScheduleNativeImage</ProgressText> > <ProgressText Action="NetFxNativeImage">NetFxNativeImage</ProgressText> > <ProgressText > Action="NetFxExecuteNativeImageCommitUninstall">NetFxExecuteNativeImageCommitUninstall</ProgressText> > <ProgressText > Action="NetFxExecuteNativeImageUninstall">NetFxExecuteNativeImageUninstall</ProgressText> > > and we do see some of these flash by, but the long pause at the end of > "Removing backup files" remains. We can see that this is because of ngen > because TaskManager shows ngen doing a lot of work during this period. > > Is there any way that we can do this? > > Thanks > Glenn > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
