Linking .Net Assemblies

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This is all hypothetical, so please bear with me.

Say I'm writing a tool in C# called Foo. The output is foo.exe. I've found some really great library that I like to use called Bar, which I can reference as bar.dll in my project. When I build my project, I have foo.exe and bar.dll in my output directory. Good so far.

What I'd like to do is link foo.exe and bar.dll so they are one assembly, foo.exe. I would prefer to be able to do this in VS2008, but if I have to resort to a command-line tool like al.exe I don't mind so much.

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 17 '08 at 16:50

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There's ILMerge. Link

answered Sep 17 '08 at 16:50

ageektrapped

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 17 '08 at 17:00

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Set up a post-build event under Project Properties:

ilmerge /out:$(TargetDir)foo.exe $(TargetPath) $(TargetDir)bar.dll

answered Sep 17 '08 at 17:00

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 17 '08 at 16:52

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Check out the ILMerge tool found here.

answered Sep 17 '08 at 16:52

Abe Heidebrecht

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 17 '08 at 18:09

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Thanks everyone who answered!

I ended up with NuGenUnify which provides a GUI wrapper for ilmerge.

answered Sep 17 '08 at 18:09

user6202

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Linking .Net Assemblies

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