We have a C# application that hosts a WebBrowser control.
The project's output includes the file Microsoft.mshtml.dll
whose size is over 8MB. This DLL is more than 20 times larger than
our actual application. The large size seems to slowdown
our application's startup time significantly. Also it makes
the downloadable package much larger than necessary.

Does anyone know a way to reduce the size of Microsoft.mshtml.dll?

Thanks in advance,

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What parts of it are you actually using? You can probably declare COM
interfaces manually in your code with the ComImport and Guid
attributes, and then loose the reference to the interop assembly.



Mattias

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There is no way to do this - that DLL is that big, use it or leave it.

Marc

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Marc Scheuner May The Source Be With You!

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Thanks. It would be a challenge for us to do those declarations manually
as we have over 100 different calls into mshtml and the set used
changes regularly. I have hoped that there might be some tools to create
such optimized stub DLL automatically.

regards,

James X. Li
http://IEunit.sourceforge.net