We have an existing PC game that uses C# and the XNA Framework. We need to submit this to various Game Portals such as Big Fish Games, who have a stipulation that the .exe provided does not have ANY other dependencies.
We previously had some mileage using tools either the Salamander or RemoteSoft linker tools – I forget which it was 2-3 years ago and I don’t have access to that code repository.
Is there another tool out there that will do the same to our XNA application?
The tool you’re looking for is called ILMerge or you can try embedding a dll as a resource. The former changes the assemblies, I believe, while the latter doesn’t.