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Asked: 2026-05-27T23:32:41+00:00

I spent the past week learning and coding a small personal application in C#.

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I spent the past week learning and coding a small personal application in C#. I used dotnetbar and everything runs fine when I debug on my machine, but I want to compile everything into ONE executable file and have everything work…

I was told that the way to compile in Visual Studio was to build the solution, which puts the file in bin/release or bin/debug. I built the solution in release mode and ran the application and everything worked, but then when I transferred it to another computer to test, nothing opened and after about 30 seconds an error came up.

I assumed it was dotnetbar, so I made a new project with one button, tested it on the other computer and it worked. I added one ButtonX from dotnetbar, tested it, and it didn’t open and there wasn’t even an error message.

Why is this happening? Does the program need to come with the dotnetbar dlls with it, or can I compile them with the app somehow?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Take a look at this information from DotNetBar’s website. You need to either copy the files over or use a Setup Project in Visual Studio.

    From above site:

    DotNetBar for WPF with your applications is as simple as including the
    DotNetBar assemblies in the same folder as your application
    executable. You only need to distribute assemblies you have referenced
    in your project.

    Following assemblies may be included:

    DevComponents.WpfRibbon.dll

    DevComponents.WpfEditors.dll

    DevComponents.WpfDock.dll

    DevComponents.WpfSchedule.dll

    Edit:

    Based on your comments you could try making a Self Extracting Exe or using something like ILMerge. I have not personally tried it.

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