Turning .NET executable into native executable

Question

Is there any approach to convert an application developed in .NET into a native executable (sources are included)?

Installing the whole framework (up to .NET Framew

Answer 1

There is a commercial product that claims to do that here:

http://www.xenocode.com/Obfuscator/

"Deploy .NET applications securely, with no .NET Framework install"

No idea what the drawbacks to this would be though