dotnet clr: Putting aside all the arguments for and against (if you can), is it POSSIBLE
to:

Use ILMerge to link the runtime (or the relevant bits of it) so that my
users don't need the framework installed.

Yes it would be hard, no its prob not a good idea, but is it _possible_?

The other solutions seem a bit expensive for a bit of shareware...

I have seen:
Remotesoft Salamader Linker
Thinsall
XenoCode

Any others?

Thanks
Rich

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AFAIK ILMerge only merges assemblies (and possibly modules) containing
managed code. The CLR is all native code and can't be linked into an
application with ILMerge.



Mattias

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