Re: [WiX-users] NGen and uninstalling

2007-10-10 Thread Peter Marcu
Sorry, no workarounds that I could see. From: Doug Payne Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 11:50 AM To: Peter Marcu; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Sumit Mehrotra Subject: RE: NGen and uninstalling Thanks, Peter. This is consistent with what I just discovered. I paused setup just after my cust

Re: [WiX-users] NGen and uninstalling

2007-10-10 Thread Doug Payne
Thanks, Peter. This is consistent with what I just discovered. I paused setup just after my custom action closed down all the running applications, then ran ngen manually on each asembly, in the same order as setup. 'NGen display ...' reported each assembly had been removed, but with one excepti

Re: [WiX-users] NGen and uninstalling

2007-10-10 Thread Peter Marcu
Ok, I followed up on this and having files left behind after uninstall when an managed app is using it is a known issue with ngen.exe itself. While the images still appear to be there, they will not be loaded so in effect they are deleted from the cache but the file still exists on disk. I know

Re: [WiX-users] NGen and uninstalling

2007-10-10 Thread Doug Payne
Thanks for your response, Peter, The images are not removed after reboot. I did notice one odd thing, though, after initial install and reboot, THE IMAGES (*.NI.* FILES) WERE IN THE Native Image folder, but ngen reported their status as pending, even though I specified Priority="0" for all the

Re: [WiX-users] NGen and uninstalling

2007-10-10 Thread Peter Marcu
Hi Doug, Can you verify for me whether or not the images are removed after a reboot? My suspicion is that because the file is in use, the OS cant remove it and schedules a "Pending File Rename Operation" on the file which will be executed on a reboot. If they are not removed on reboot, let me