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roybalderama
roybalderama

Reputation: 1640

Embed DLL into Exe

Is there a way to build my exe that other references will be embedded? for example. the System.Data.Entity.dll.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4661

Answers (3)

Handprint
Handprint

Reputation: 444

Optionally:

If you are using Visual Studio w/Nuget, you can simply set your needed reference to 'copy local = true' and install Fody.Costura.

You can refine things a bit using a simple xml file, per the documentation provided on the project page (as well as tidy-up your build directory if desired).

Upvotes: 1

slugster
slugster

Reputation: 49985

One way is to embed the dll as a resource, then extract it to the filesystem at run time and then dynamically load it.

Although it is hard to imagine why you would need to do this - there are various installation mechanisms that allow you to package multiple files and deploy them together.

Upvotes: 0

Jeremy Thompson
Jeremy Thompson

Reputation: 65702

ILMerge - Microsoft Research is a utility that can be used to merge multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. It is freely available for use from the Tools & Utilities page at the Microsoft Research page.

Upvotes: 1

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