How can I embed a .dll into my final .exe

[cis4life]

Hello,

I developed an windows application and I have a .dll that currently sits outside the dll. If possible, I would rather embed somehow the .dll so I could distrubute the application without having to distrubute the external .dll.

is this possible, and if so, how do I go about doing this?

I'm using VS.NET (C#) 2005

Thanks for any help you can offer,

Thanks,
Cedric

[vijaydiwakar]

Hello,

I developed an windows application and I have a .dll that currently sits outside the dll. If possible, I would rather embed somehow the .dll so I could distrubute the application without having to distrubute the external .dll.

is this possible, and if so, how do I go about doing this?

I'm using VS.NET (C#) 2005

Thanks for any help you can offer,

Thanks,
Cedric

have u tried to add reference

[cis4life]

yes,

Thats not the issue. The issue is the final output is that I have the .exe and the external .dll. I want to be able to embed the .dll into the .exe so when I distrubute the app, I only have the 1 .exe and not 2 files (.exe and the .dll)

[vijaydiwakar]

yes,

Thats not the issue. The issue is the final output is that I have the .exe and the external .dll. I want to be able to embed the .dll into the .exe so when I distrubute the app, I only have the 1 .exe and not 2 files (.exe and the .dll)

in such case u've to write the code in any classmodule of that application

[dawoodledawi]

Dear Mr
Just Make Run to your project and go to dirctoy or your project \bin \you have file .exe just copy then past anywhere you need

Dest Reagrd
D.A.L

[radcaesar]

Just integrate the .dll code inside ur project as an module.

But its a bad practice and not recommended. It will violate OOP system definitions.

:)

[cis4life]

The dll is a royalty free lib. I purchased, and though I can freely distrubute the library. I don't want everyone who purchase this app to have access to this lib. So I can't just place the code inside a class in my app, cause I don't have access to the source.

There's no tools to embed dll's inside of .exe's???

Thanks for the replies so far, just trying to figure out how I'm going to distrubute this application.

Cedric

[dorinbogdan]

This link may be helpful.

[UEH1]

may be it can help:
blog post: how to embed dll into .net application

[Plater]

You might be able to do something sneaky with the resources. I think you need to create an unmanaged resource or something and bind the library inside it to be linked. I've never attempted this, but I seem to recall people doing it back in days of yor.

[sanii]

Try the free utility from Microsoft called 'ILMerge' available at Download details: ILMerge. It enables merging all assemblies that an app uses (.dlls, .exes) into one .exe for easier deployment purposes via the regular Build process in Visual Studio.

[NitinSawant]

use ILMerge,


you can merge dll and exe's into one final exe for easy redistribution.

[IndianIdol]

I found one free application and more more powerful "Enigma Virtual Box" from http://enigmaprotector.com . Also "Register ActiveX/COM Components without Administrator Privileges" via this application. Moreover this is freeware thus I love it. Your all fulfillment may be complete with this freeware.

[MikeRails]

The only way is to use special tools. I don't like packers, but there is SDK for that which can be used from .net code: it's boxedapp sdk. It's very handy to just create pseudofile and then use it.