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 had the same problem with combining WPF dependencies .... ILMerge doesn't appear to deal with these. Costura.Fody worked perfectly for us however and took about 5 minutes to get going... a very good experience.

Just install with Nuget (selecting the correct default project in the Package Manager Console). It introduces itself into the target project and the default settings worked immediately for us.

It merges the all DLLs marked "Copy Local" = true and produces a merged .EXE (alongside the standard output), which is nicely compressed in size (much less than the total output size).

The license is MIT as so you can modify/distribute as required.

https://github.com/Fody/Costura/