Can I include dll in exe (in Visual Studio)? [duplicate]

Answer 1

You can use a tool like boxedapp or thinstall...

Answer 2

For example, add x.dll to the project and set its Build Action to Embedded Resource.

To extract:

 string AppPath=Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;
 Assembly ThisAssembly=Assembly.LoadFrom(AppPath);
 System.IO.Stream fs=ThisAssembly.GetManifestResourceStream("yourproectname.x.dll");
 int ssize=(int)fs.Length;
 byte [] buf=new byte[ssize];
 fs.Read(buf,0,ssize);
 fs.Close();

Answer 3

I also recommend boxedapp. It's great app!

Answer 4

Include them as embedded. You can then extract them at run-time.

Answer 5

Yes, I left out the code to write the file out...

FileStream so=new FileStream("c:\\\wherever\\\x.dll",FileMode.Create);

so.Write(buf,0,ssize);

so.Close();

No extra utilities required.

Answer 6

As long as your DLLs are .NET assemblies, then ILMerge should be able to combine your exe and all of its dependencies into a single file.