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With the recent announcement of .Net compiling to native code, I want to know how can I enable this functionality in my applications? Does it work for all project types and all platforms?
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Every managed (C# or VB) Universal Windows app will utilize this new technology. The applications are automatically compiled to native code before they reach consumer devices. If you’d like to dive deeper in how it works, I highly recommend reading more on it at MSDN. How does .NET Native impact me and my app?
To create a .NET Native app, follow these steps: Develop a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app, and test the debug builds of your app to ensure that it works properly. Handle additional reflection and serialization usage. Manually resolve missing metadata, and repeat step 3 until all issues are resolved.
From the Control Panel, click Programs and Features. When the Programs and Features window comes up, click Turn Windows Features On or Off. Then check .NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0) and click OK.
.NET Native is a precompilation technology for building and deploying UWP apps.. NET Native is included with Visual Studio 2015 and later versions. It automatically compiles the release version of UWP apps that are written in managed code (C# or Visual Basic) to native code.
As of today, .Net Native only supports Windows Store Apps targeting ARM or X64. In the future other project types and platforms may be supported.
Start by making sure you have the correct tool chain installed. You need Visual Studio 2013 with Update 2 RC and the Native Developer preview installed on your machine:
After everything is installed, right click on your project and select Enable for .Net Native
After doing this, you should see a new file added to your project default.rd.xml. This is a report that tells you if your application is compatible with .net native code generation.
If everything is compatible, you can enable the compilation in the project properties. As I mentioned previously, this only works for x64 and ARM platforms at this time, so select one of those platforms and you can check the Compile with .Net Native tool chain option:
I suggest watching this channel 9 video on how the tooling works: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Inside-NET-Native
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