Bundle enterprise library instead of installing

Question

Hi folks, does anybody know if it's possible (or have experience doing so) to simply bundle the microsoft enterprise library components in a .net solution instead of performing the installation? I'm trying to avoid putting a customer through the installation step. Thanks for your response!! :-)

Answer 1

Yes, it's possible. If you look at SCSF you will see that SCSF wizards creates a /Lib directory full of entlib dlls and all of the project of this solution references they.

There is the list of /Lib (of course you should exclude SmartClient assemblies):

Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI.dll
Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI.WinForms.dll
Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI.WPF.dll
Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.dll
Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Data.dll
Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Data.SqlCe.dll
Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.ExceptionHandling.dll
Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.ExceptionHandling.Logging.dll
Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.dll
Microsoft.Practices.ObjectBuilder.dll
Microsoft.Practices.SmartClient.ConnectionMonitor.dll
Microsoft.Practices.SmartClient.DisconnectedAgent.dll
Microsoft.Practices.SmartClient.EndpointCatalog.dll
Microsoft.Practices.SmartClient.EnterpriseLibrary.dll