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maxp
maxp

Reputation: 25141

Assembly file structure when building a project (c#)

If someone could clarify the following, with regards to c#, this would be great.

Say I have a web project (webproj1) and a class library (classlib1).

webproj1 has a reference to classlib1.

classlib1 also has a reference to a third party dll (thirdpartydll).

When built, the \bin folder of webproj will obviously contain classlib1.dll, but should it also contain a copy of thirdpartydll.dll(which is referenced from classlib1) or is it somehow 'embedded' in to classlib1.dll?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 79

Answers (1)

Patrick Hofman
Patrick Hofman

Reputation: 156898

You need it separately when the assembly cannot be found in for example the GAC.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yx7xezcf(v=vs.110).aspx

You could embed it using ILMerge (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mbarnett/ilmerge.aspx)

Upvotes: 1

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