Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day: Automate ILMerge'ing - Using Project Attributes to mark an Assembly for merging and then MSBuild to ILMerge them...

Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen.com - Mixing Languages in a Single Assembly in Visual Studio seamlessly with ILMerge and MSBuild

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What I really want is to be able to mark an assembly as merge-able and have it automatically merged in just because it's referenced.
Here's what I came up with. Thanks to Dan Moseley and Joshua Flanagan for their help. Thanks to Jomo Fisher for the Target File.
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Looks like they are both in there. To refresh, if I want to merge in VB assemblies:

Change the referencing CSPROJ to import "IlMerge.CSharp.targets"
Add <IlMerge>True</IlMerge> to the references you want merged in.
Save, Reload, Build

C# and VB, living together, mass hysteria!"

This is pretty cool.

I really dig the thought of just adding an project attribute to my assembly projects and having them automatically ILMerged during the build (much more so than ILMerging in post-build events).

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Monday, October 08, 2007

Automate ILMerge'ing - Using Project Attributes to mark an Assembly for merging and then MSBuild to ILMerge them...

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