Easiest way to embed assembly’s into your executables
I usually write a lot of command line tools for different quick fixes. Distributing them to clients with a lot of attached DLL files are not always the best. They get copied around different servers and sooner or later someone runs them without the proper DLL files present. For quick and dirty tools there might be faulty error handling and the tool fails in a critical moment due to the missing assembly. I usually embed the DLL file into the executable, especially when doing command line tools. By far the easiest way of doing that in .Net is to install a Nuget package called Costura.Fody!
Just install it into the project and build the release and all assembly’s get compressed and embedded into the executable. Visit Costura.Fody github page for more information!
Hackviking aka Kristofer Källsbo 