NGEN! - When Your Need Is Speed!

ILDASM tells you what is in the assemblies that you create with VB.NET. NGEN makes them faster.

... Well ... Usually. As it turns out, just creating a native code version of your program doesn't always speed it up a lot. But NGEN is easy to use and just might give your applications a speed bump they could use. This second article in our series about the .NET Framework tools tells you what it does and how to use it.