Bundling assemblies (DLLs) into one assembly for other's to reference

Asked Jan 23 '15 at 08:06

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Environment: Visual Studio 2013, C#, ASP.NET MVC

Question: For the projects that I create in Visual Studio that use C#, I would like to give others one compiled DLL as opposed to them having to add any extra DLL references themselves.

Example: I have a project that is used for web services:

MyProjectWebServices.dll <-- this is what I would just like to hand out
Some3rdParty.dll
Another.dll
SomethingElse.dll

So, for the above 4 libraries that other projects need to reference as well since my original distributable library (MyProjectWebServices.dll) references them, is there a way to bundle the bottom 3 into just the first one?

asked Jan 23 '15 at 08:06

emily_bma

Have you looked at this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/189549/embedding-dlls-in-a-compiled-executable? – Shane Haw Jan 23 '15 at 08:09
possible duplicate http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4416632/how-to-wrap-multiple-dll-in-a-single-dll – Saravanan Jan 23 '15 at 08:10
@ShaneHaw - That's it! https://github.com/Fody/Costura – emily_bma Jan 23 '15 at 08:13
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Do not use costura for this. Use ilmerge instead – Simon Feb 09 '15 at 22:49
@Simon - care to explain as to the reason? – emily_bma Feb 10 '15 at 02:49
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because costura is designed for exes and not dll. you will have unintended side effects if you use it for dlls – Simon Feb 10 '15 at 02:57

Bundling assemblies (DLLs) into one assembly for other's to reference

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