ilmerge

What is primary assembly

I am trying to use ILMerge in our build process. ILMerge has the Kind enumeration, which contains the SameAsPrimaryAssembly field. What is the this primary assembly? How can I set the primary assembly? ...

Is there a ILMerge equivalent tool for Mono?

I'm looking for a open source tool to merge multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. ...

Patching after ILMerge

We're looking into using ILMerge (along with NGEN.exe and GAC registration) to improve the startup times of our application. It looks like we won't be able to merge all of the assemblies into one dll because it will prevent any patching of our application post-deployment. We've been using msimsp.exe to generate a patch which just repla...

Is there any free ilmerge like tool out there which can merge wpf assemblies?

Hi! I'm looking for a free tool to merge all of my wpf application's assemblies into a single assembly. Usually, I use ILMerge, but unfortunately, it does not support merging WPF assemblies. Are there any tools out there which can achieve that? A commercial tool is not an option for me because the application is an open source project....

ILMerge using 2 third party dll's C++

I have written a program that utilizes 2 3rd party dll's and I want to use ILMerge to merge both dll's into 1 executable. I have tried using the command line: ilmerge /target:winexe /out:final.exe normal.exe 3rd_party_dll_1.dll 3rd_party_dll_2.dll but this returns this error: `Could not load assembly from the location 'C:\Users...

Does ILMerge actually merge assemblies, or just put everything in one file?

What does ILMerge do? Does it create a single new assembly, or just put multiple assemblies in to one dll? I'm asking from the perspective of: What happens when I'm merging assemblies that have InternalsVisibleTo attributes to each other? What happens if I'm doing reflection from strings from fully qualified assembly names Thanks ...