Recommended approach for custom actions please

[lubosh]

I have a number of .NET assemblies which are installed into GAC. What's the easiest way to NGen these assemblies during installation?

[gigi]

Hi,

Advanced Installer offer support for installing assemblies into GAC, please see:
http://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-g ... blies.html

Best Regards,
Gigi
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Gheorghe Rada
Advanced Installer Team
http://www.advancedinstaller.com

[lubosh]

Thanks, I'm aware of this feature however doesn't solve what I need.

NGen.exe is a tool in .NET framework which can create native images of assemblies. This is important to improve startup time of deployed application on target machine.

Basically I have around 12 assemblies and I need to execute for each assembly command "NGen.exe <assembly_path>", I am wondering how such a script would look like.

This is quite common requirement for any .NET deployment and I was a little surprised that Advanced Installer offers a neat way to install assemblies into GAC but doesn't have any in-built way to NGen them as well.

[pachwald]

Hi!

In my project, I ngen my libraries using this approach:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/librar ... S.80).aspx

I am not quite sure whether or not this is OK for Vista certification. Perhaps anyone did it before and knows how to do it "correctly"?

Cheers,
Alex