I blogged yesterday about NGen as a way to improve the startup speed of some applications. But I got immediately a follow-up question; how can you see what images are already installed in the native image cache?
Let’s find out…
The first command you should know is ngen display. This shows all images available in the cache:
As the list can be quite large, it is sometimes easier to search if a specific assembly is inside the cache. This can be done by adding (part of) the assembly name to the display command, e.g. ngen display xsltc :