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Asked: 2026-06-14T05:43:05+00:00

For past few days, I had been struggling with Merging assemblies inside a single

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For past few days, I had been struggling with Merging assemblies inside a single executable file. So that I can distribute the single executable file to my users. I found out ILMerge to do this apart from ILMerge, there are few more tools that seem to do it. I tried BoxedAPP Packer and SmartAssembly also .NetShrink seems to work good but all are paid tools. So, I wanted to complete the task with ILMerge and after much of browsing and searching Google and from StackOverflow, I found out the solution.

I tried the below set of lines for merging the assembly

c:\"Program Files"\Microsoft\ILMerge\ILMerge.exe"
/lib:"C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5"
/lib:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies"
/t: winexe
/target:exe
/targetplatform:v3.5,C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5 
/out:”MergedProduct.exe”
"$(TargetDir)Product.exe"
"$(TargetDir)CButtonLib.dll"
"$(TargetDir)Common Tools.dll'
"$(TargetDir)Core.dll"
"$(TargetDir)ProgressIndicator.dll"
"$(TargetDir)TaskScheduler.dll"

I used this above set of lines inside
Build-Events > Post-Build event command line

and after building the project I got as build succeeded. Also while building the application runs as if i have pressed F5 to start debugging. So, to summarize up, I’m sure the above set of lines are correct but i couldn’t find the output executable file (i.e MergedProduct.exe) anywhere. I also tried using the Release mode of the Visual Studio 9.0 but still i couldn’t find the Output merged executable.

Is there something really obvious that i’m missing?

Also, can I merge Product.exe.config file using ILMerge?

Any help or suggestions would be really appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Is that codeblock a cut and past of the command line? I notice you have fancy quotes around the /out filename. Also, have you tried adding a folder to the /out filename (eg, $(TargetDir))? We do that in our build process to save it in a particular publish folder.

    ILMerge will allow you to merge the xml documentation, but not the configuration files (as far as I’m aware).

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