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

While it is true that ILMerge does not update WPF resource strings, it can be used to merge assemblies with WPF references by passing the reference assembly directory instead of the runtime directory to /targetplatform, as such: /targetplatform:v4,"C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.0\Profile\Client" (for the .NET 4.0 client profile).

I use this to merge in Rx's System.Reactive.dll, which has a reference to Dispatcher, but doesn't have any actual WPF resources.