ILMerge and localized resource assemblies

Question

We have an application whose structure when compiled looks something like this:

• Foo
  • nb-NO
    • Text.resources.dll
  • sv-SE
    • Text.resources.dll
  • Bar.dll
  • Foo.exe
  • Text.dll

Is it possible to use ILMerge on this? How would you do that?

Answer 1

I asked my own variant of this question and eventually got/implemented an answer: Single-assembly multi-language Windows Forms deployment (ILMerge and satellite assemblies / localization) - possible?

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Disclaimer: I work for the company that makes Dotfuscator.

There may be other alternatives out there that I am not aware of but I am pretty sure ILMerge does not do this.

An alternative would be to use Dotfuscator Pro, a commercial product that I know for certain will correctly link together assemblies and does correctly link any satellite resource assemblies for the set of input assemblies. A free trial is available so that you can test it out and make sure it works in your specific scenario.

Answer 3

According to one of the comments here, if you're willing to give up intellisense, or perhaps maintain separate parallel msbuild files, you can make your DLLs "netmodules" This 0f course assumes you have the source code to your DLLs.