Serious trouble with ILMerge and .NET 4.0

Question

For the life of me, I can\'t seem to get my .NET 4 application merging properly with ILMerge. Even after setting /targetplatform, /lib, /ndebug and adding a custom

Answer 1

I emailed Mike Barnett, the author of ILMerge and he explained it's not designed to work with WPF apps at all, unfortunately, and was surprised when I told him that I had it working with my WPF 3.5 app. Since it's not really supported, I'll just write this off for now and wait for another alternative to present itself.

As a side note, I did try out .NET Reactor from Eziriz, and it actually worked great, but costs $180 which for a hobby project I'm not really willing to spend just yet. But that's a whole lot cheaper than the other commercial alternative from Red Gate and so thought I'd mention it.

Update: Mike Barnett now considers the accepted answer to this question as the best solution. According to him, if he'd known it was possible, he never would have written ILMerge in the first place.