Re: Is there a .NET compiler ?

"John Jacobson" <jake@j[nospam]snewsreader.com> wrote in message news:4423684c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Jon Shemitz <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes. It's called NGen. Native Generate. In 2.0, NGen precompiles a
whole app; in 1.x, it works an assembly at a time.

Someone else on this newsgroup said that it only compiles your code in, not the
.NET framework pieces that your code relies on.


Yes - that was me, but I'm happy to be proven wrong. Linking parts of the framework into your app goes against the whole philosophy of .NET. Precompiling using ngen is also not the norm. It should only be done for special cases by those who really understand what they are doing - and that doesn't include me yet.

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Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp

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