Is it possible, in C#, to share code between Visual Studio projects without needing to distribute a DLL?
I’m maintaining some software that’s composed of a few Visual Studio C# projects, each building to a simple console executable. There’s a lot of shared code between the projects that I’d like to move out. I believe I can put the code in a Class Library project, but I’d rather avoid tacking on a DLL to distribute with each of the executables.
Is there any way around this? I’m new at C#, so perhaps I’m thinking about this all wrong anyway – are there any alternate suggestions?
You can use ILMerge to combine the class library with the exe.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mbarnett/ilmerge.aspx