Many applications consist of an EXE that depends on many DLL files. When deploying an application all files must be deployed. So carrying all dependent DLL files for an exe during deployment is a problem and you may miss one of the dependent DLL file. To overcome on this problem you can create a single deployable EXE in Visual Studio. In visual studio, we can make configuration of EXE in such a way that, we can load an assembly at runtime that is located in a folder that is not the bin folder of the application. You do not have to put an assembly that an application must use at runtime in the bin folder of the application. You can put the assembly in any folder on the system, and then you can refer to the assembly at runtime. Following procedure explain the same –
The technique uses Appdomain’s “AssemblyResolve” event to achieve it. First, identify all the DLL files that your EXE file depends on. Then add these DLL files in one of the folder in your project. For example, I am using following DLL files in my application which I have added in dll folder in my application –
