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Sarah Vessels
Sarah Vessels

Reputation: 31660

one DLL, multiple projects?

Is it possible to force my C# solution file to make a single DLL containing all the projects in the solution, instead of one DLL per project? This dude says that isn't possible but I notice that's a post from 2004. I'm using Visual Studio 2008 Team System and it's a C# application.

Upvotes: 12

Views: 18075

Answers (5)

Dirk Vollmar
Dirk Vollmar

Reputation: 176249

It is not possible with Visual Studio directly, but you can merge assemblies using ILMerge. This could e.g. be done in a post-build step:

ilmerge /target:winexe /out:SelfContainedProgram.exe 
    Program.exe ClassLibrary1.dll ClassLibrary2.dll

If your project is an ASP.Net project you can rely on the ASP.NET Merge Tool.

Upvotes: 14

brendan
brendan

Reputation: 29996

Never done it personally but looks like this tool could make that happen:

ILMerge

Upvotes: 0

Samuel Neff
Samuel Neff

Reputation: 74949

You could create an MSBuild script that uses XSLT to combine all of the csproj files into one and then builds it. You won't need to copy cs files or anything like that, just dynamically generate a new csproj file.

Upvotes: 0

SLaks
SLaks

Reputation: 888087

It is possible, and it was even possible in 2004.

However, Visual Studio does not expose it.

You need to use netmodules.

Upvotes: 0

Reed Copsey
Reed Copsey

Reputation: 564821

No. Each project will compile into a separate library or application.

You can, however, merge these together into a single DLL or EXE file using ILMerge post compilation.

Upvotes: 20

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