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

The only product we founded to solve the problem in 2007 was Xenocode Postbuild. From that time we use this product successfully, we use also its pretty good virtualization features.

The only problem is that the version we purchased don't support the Windows 7 (where you don't need to install .net framework to run your program compiled with version < 4.0). So I wrote to Xenocode. They answered

In order to get support for Win 7 you should upgrade to the newest version of Postbuild (now called .NET Obfuscator). Win 7 is not a supported platform for Postbuild 2007.