ILMerge Best Practices

Question

Do you use ILMerge? Do you use ILMerge to merge multiple assemblies to ease deployment of dll\'s? Have you found problems with deployment/versioning in production after ILMe

Answer 1

We use ILMerge on quite a few projects. The Web Service Software Factory, for example produces something like 8 assemblies as its output. We merge all of those DLLs into a single DLL so that the service host will only have to reference one DLL.

It makes life somewhat easier, but it's not a big deal either.