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hshah
hshah

Reputation: 841

Using Log4Net Without DLL

My C# WinForms application is designed to be simple to deploy and I don't like the fact that the log4net.dll becomes an additional file to deploy. Is there a way I can embed it into my application so all the user gets to see if the main .exe file and the backend SQL CE database?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 896

Answers (2)

Nasreddine
Nasreddine

Reputation: 37808

Yes. You can do that using ILMerge.

ILMerge is a utility that can be used to merge multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. ILMerge takes a set of input assemblies and merges them into one target assembly. The first assembly in the list of input assemblies is the primary assembly. When the primary assembly is an executable, then the target assembly is created as an executable with the same entry point as the primary assembly.

Here's a GUI for ILMerge to make things easier for you

Upvotes: 5

abhishek
abhishek

Reputation: 2992

Well, as a side approach (other than ILMerge),

You can log everything in your server where you have deployed your application using log4net. When you want to retrieve your log, use Webrequest to get the data from the server.

Provided everything will need internet connection to log.

Upvotes: -1

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