Any reason why NGEN should hang and never complete for a particular assembly?

Posted by Lasse V. Karlsen on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Lasse V. Karlsen
Published on 2010-04-15T10:00:18Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 10:03 UTC
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I have a class library project for .NET 3.5 built with Visual Studio 2008.

If I try to NGEN the core assembly in this solution file, NGEN never completes, or at least not in the time I've bothered to let it run (like overnight).

Has anyone else experienced this? And if so, did you solve it? And if you did, how? What steps did you take?

If this is a bug in NGEN, how do I post this to Microsoft? I have a connect account, but where do I post a bug-report for this particular product, instead of a .NET class (which I know where to go for.)

The class library in question can be found here:

http://svn.vkarlsen.no:81/svn/LVK/LVK_3_5/trunk (subversion 1.6 repository)

The problematic assembly is the LVK.Core assembly.

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