Hi Einar
>Did you try to use the ngen.exe command line utility to pre-compile the IL code? That way you should be able to find out if it is the JIT-compiler (.NET Framework) that is slow or if it is the acctuall startup code that is causing the slow startup.
I didn't know about it nor I had the time, by the way does it work on executables? But this is confirmed that it always loads that slow.