When & How to use ILMerge with Visual Studio Project / Solution

Question

I\'m developing a medium sized enterprise application. There are many projects / solutions to this. For example:

• Company.Data
  • Company.Data.LinqToSql

Answer 1

The question ILMerge Best Practices has good info on why.

When I use ILMerge, I use it to build a single DLL, to simplify deployment.

As to How, I define a separate, custom VS project, "Converged.csproj" if you like. In that .csproj file I define a custom Compile target. It is boilerplate code, that performs an ILMerge on all the referenced assemblies for the project.

It looks like this: