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The trace also shows some very unusual usage pattern in the NGen index in particular, multiple nodes for the same assembly, which generally indicates that the index is corrupted.

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Some common reasons why NGen. exe might have failed are -

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Now assuming you have some background on when to use NGen, let's get started.

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Using NGen via the set of steps outlined below will result in native images created only on the specific machine where the steps are run.

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I'm assuming you have identified that NGen will likely benefit your application (perhaps your application has been identified as having poor warm startup due to JIT-ing of method calls OR you are working with a library that gets loaded into several processes on a machine and you would like to reduce the library's impact on the total working set of the machine.)

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As part of their grant, the winning scientists will receive a perpetual license to the DNASTAR® SeqMan NGen assembly software and the CLC Genomics Workbench bioinformatics software.

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(NGen) taking too long (and in some cases leading the user to believe that the installation process had hanged), we separated the NGen process into pre and post-installation NGen processing since Exchange 2007 SP2 Rollups.

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The NGen install command creates native images for the target specified along with any static dependencies that target may have.

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The post-install NGen of Exchange files can still take some time but the time will generally be much less with this pre-install feature.

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This series of steps will provides guidance on how to invoke NGen for your application from within the Visual Studio solution.

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