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Kandi X-RAY | ILMerge Summarykandi X-RAY | ILMerge SummaryILMerge is a C# library typically used in Editor, Code Editor, Unity applications. ILMerge has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has medium support. You can download it from GitHub. ILMerge is a utility that merges multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. It is freely available for use and is available as a NuGet package. If you have any problems using it, please get in touch. (mbarnett at microsoft dot com). But first try reading the documentation. ILMerge takes a set of input assemblies and merges them into one target assembly. The first assembly in the list of input assemblies is the primary assembly. When the primary assembly is an executable, then the target assembly is created as an executable with the same entry point as the primary assembly. Also, if the primary assembly has a strong name, and a .snk file is provided, then the target assembly is re-signed with the specified key so that it also has a strong name. ILMerge is packaged as a console application. But all of its functionality is also available programmatically. There are several options that control the behavior of ILMerge. See the documentation that comes with the tool for details. The current version is 3.0.29 (released on 10 April 2019). NOTE: There is no longer a version of ILMerge that runs in the v1.1 runtime. ILMerge runs in the v4.0 .NET Runtime, but it is also able to merge assemblies from other framework versions using the /targetplatformoption. Please see the documentation. (However, it can merge PDB files only for v2 (and later) assemblies.). Currently, ILMerge works only on Windows-based platforms. It does not yet support Rotor or Mono. If you use ASP.NET v2.0, then it provides a tool (based on ILMerge) to combine assemblies created during precompilation. You can get more details from the ASP.NET web site. SupportILMerge has a medium active ecosystem. It has 1121 star(s) with 151 fork(s). There are 110 watchers for this library. It had no major release in the last 6
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Months.There are 51 open issues and 23 have been closed. On average issues are closed in 225 days. There are 1 open pull requests and 0 closed requests. It has a neutral sentiment in the developer community.The latest version of ILMerge is current. QualityILMerge has 0 bugs and 0 code smells. SecurityILMerge has no vulnerabilities reported, and its dependent libraries have no vulnerabilities reported. ILMerge code analysis shows 0 unresolved vulnerabilities. There are 0 security hotspots that need review. LicenseILMerge is licensed under the MIT License. This license is Permissive.Permissive licenses have the least restrictions, and you can use them in most projects. ReuseILMerge releases are not available. You will need to build from source code and install.Installation instructions, examples and code snippets are available. Top functions reviewed by kandi - BETA kandi's functional review helps you automatically verify the functionalities of the libraries and avoid rework.Currently covering the most popular Java, JavaScript and Python libraries. See a Sample of ILMergeGet all kandi verified functions for this library. ILMerge Key FeaturesNo Key Features are available at this moment for ILMerge. ILMerge Examples and Code SnippetsNo Code Snippets are available at this moment for ILMerge.VulnerabilitiesNo vulnerabilities reportedInstall ILMergeAs noted on the ilmerge NuGet page, the package can be installed from the Visual Studio environment. Expand the project container in the Solution Explorer view. Right click on references and select Manage NuGet Packages. Ensure the Package source is set to nuget.org. Next, click on Tools - NuGet Package Manager - Package Manager Console. Ensure the Package source is also set to nuget.org. SupportFor any new features, suggestions and bugs create an issue on GitHub. If you have any questions check and ask questions on community page Stack Overflow .Find more information at:Find, review, and download reusable Libraries, Code Snippets, Cloud APIs from over 650 million Knowledge ItemsFind more librariesILMerge/ILMerge/ILMerge.cs at master dotnet/ILMerge - GitHub
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Michael BarnettResearch in Software Engineering (RiSE)Microsoft ResearchCopyright © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.1. IntroductionThis document describes the ILMerge utility which merges multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. However, some .NET assemblies may not be able to be merged because they may contain features such as unmanaged code. I would highly recommend using peverify (the .NET Framework SDK tool) on the output of ILMerge to guarantee that the output is verifiable and will load in the .NET runtime.ILMerge is packaged as a console application. But all of its functionality is also accessible programmatically. Note that Visual Studio does allow one to add an executable as a reference, so you can write a client that uses ILMerge as a library.ILMerge takes a set of input assemblies and merges them into one target assembly. The first assembly in the list of input assemblies is the primary assembly. When the primary assembly is an executable, then the target assembly is created as an executable with the same entry point as the primary assembly. Also, if the primary assembly has a strong name, and a .snk file is provided, then the target assembly is re-signed with the specified key so that it also has a strong name.Note that anything that depended upon any of the names of the input assemblies, e.g., configuration files, must be updated to refer instead to the name of the target assembly.Any Win32 Resources in the primary assembly are copied over into the target assembly.There are many options that control the behavior of ILMerge. These are described in the next section.2. Public InterfaceThe public interface for ILMerge is defined in the ILMerging namespace as the class ILMerge.namespace ILMerging{ public class ILMerge { }}To use this class programmatically, just create an instance using the default (nullary) constructor. There are several properties and methods which are used to affect the behavior of the merging. The method Merge() is called to actually perform the merging.2.1 AllowDuplicateTypepublic void AllowDuplicateType(string typeName);The normal behavior of ILMerge is to not allow there to be more than one public type with the same name. If such a duplicate is found, then an exception is thrown. However, ILMerge can just rename the type so that it no longer causes a conflict. For private types, this is not a problem since no outside client can see it anyway, so ILMerge just does the renaming by default. For public types, it is not often a useful feature to have it renamed. However, there are situations where it is needed. In particular, for obfuscated assemblies, it seems that the obfuscator defines an attribute and creates an assembly-level attribute for the obfuscated assembly using that attribute. This would mean that obfuscated assemblies cannot be merged.So this option allows the user to either allow all public types to be renamed when they are duplicates, or to specify it for arbitrary type names. On the command line, there can be as many options as desired, if followed by a colon and a type name, otherwiseILMerge Download - ILMerge merges multiple .NET assemblies
Output assembly after it has been merged!The solution is to use the closed option (Section 2.6) to have ILMerge compute the transitive closure of the input assemblies to prevent this kind of "dangling reference". In the example, that would result in all three assemblies A, B, and C, being merged. There is no way to merge just A and B without there still being an external reference to A.4.2 Merged assembly causes a runtime error (not present in the unmerged assemblies)The most frequent cause of problems when executing the target assembly is that ILMerge has no way to merge resources. Therefore resources are just copied over from the input assemblies into the target assembly. If these resources encode references to types defined in the input assemblies, then at runtime your program may fail because the type returned from the resource does not match the type as it is defined in the target assembly. You may even see a message that "type 'T' cannot be converted to type 'T'". This looks confusing because the messages do not show the assembly that each type is defined in. The actual error is that one type is defined in the input assembly while the other is defined in the target assembly.I do not know of any way to have ILMerge do the right thing in such cases. There is no general way to decode resources and change any type references they contain.5 DependenciesILMerge is a stand-alone assembly dependent only on the v4.0 .NET Framework. (It actually uses two other assemblies: the assembly that makes up CCI itself, System.Compiler.dll, and AssemblyResolver.dll, which provides a small component for finding and loading assemblies when requested by the CCI Reader. But those assemblies have been merged into ILMerge using ILMerge before it is distributed.)6 AcknowledgementsWithout Herman Venter, this tool could not have been written. Not only because it completely depends on CCI to provide the underlying functionality for reading, transforming, and writing IL, but because of all of his help and support.GitHub - davinceleecode/ILMerge: ILMerge is a utility for
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. BlueStacks Tweaker 6. Tool for modifing BlueStacks 2 & 3 & 3N & 4 & 5 Thread starter Anatoly79 Start date Jun 16, 2017 #61 I found the solution. It doesn't work on net framework 4.0.0.0. This program works only on net framework 4.5.1 Thanks. Yes, the problem was with ILMerge. core/mscorlib. I rebuilt project without merging into one file.Now BSTweaker must work even on Windows XP with .Net Framework 4 Client Profile. i can not open BlueStacksTweaker2.exe, if i do there is a error message. I am getting error message that at the time of installing tweaker ->BlueStacks Tweaker2 has stopped working.I have latest .Net framework installed. i have a problem, bluestacktweaker has stopped working as soon as open the program, im still using window 7 32bit Try to use the latest version of BSTweaker. No, I mean the icon like this you can see, I already remove tabs "App Center" & "Help Center" but the ads icon is still there (it's an ads icon, not an installed app). I understood. I do not have this problem yet. I'll try to find a solution when these ads come to me. #62 Bigger SDCard.vdiHello,I wonder if is there an easy way to have a bigger SD Card on Bluestacks 3... I can't find any I've found this method here: but the newly created SD card makeGitHub - davinceleecode/ILMerge: ILMerge is a utility
Item in the file system.You can choose to minify your JavaScript and CSS web resources when published to your organization. This reduces the file size and thus speeds up the web page wherever the file is being reference.If your web resources are minified, you can optionally choose to 'Pretty Format' the file when downloaded from your organization into your Visual Studio project.PluginsBuild, update and publish your plugin assembly to Dynamics 365 with the click of a button.Use ILMerge as part of the build/publish process. You can easily setup your project to use ILMerge during the publishing process to Dynamics 365, with an intuitive GUI.Intuitive wizard for creating new plugins or custom workflows. This includes functionality for creating an early bound/proxy class at the same time. This process also generates the plugin configuration allowing you to register the plugin and any images with the click of a button.Templates for plugins and custom workflows that use a 'LocalContext' to provide easy access to the following: ITracingService, IOrganizationContext, Pre and Post images, and the target entity or entity reference.Plugin Registration Tool. Similar to the one provided in the Microsoft NuGet package but with the following enhancements:Configure everything without registering the actual records. This allows for setting everything up first and then registering with the click of a button. When you 'Un-register' an item, the configuration is left in-tact so that if you need to re-register it, you can do so with the click of a button.Ability to register multiple steps at the same. Total downloads of packages. ILMerge ILMerge is a utility that can be used to merge multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. ILMerge takes a set of input
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This can occur when an .snk file is not specified, or if something goes wrong trying to read its contents.2.23 TargetKindpublic ILMerge.Kind { get; set; }This controls whether the target assembly is created as a library, a console application or as a Windows application. When it is not specified, then the target assembly will be the same kind as that of the primary assembly. (In that case, the file extensions found on the specified target assembly and the primary assembly must match.) When it is specified, then the file extension of the target assembly must match the specification.The possible values are ILMerge.Kind.{Dll, Exe, WinExe}Default: ILMerge.Kind.SameAsPrimaryAssemblyCommand line option: /target:(library|exe|winexe)2.24 UnionMergepublic bool { get; set; }When this is true, then types with the same name are all merged into a single type in the target assembly. The single type is the union of all of the individual types in the input assemblies: it contains all of the members from each of the corresponding types in the input assemblies. It cannot be specified at the same time as /allowDup.Default: falseCommand line option: /union2.25 Versionpublic System.Version Version { get; set; }When this has a non-null value, then the target assembly will be given its value as the version number of the assembly. When specified on the command line, the version is read in as a string and should look like "6.2.1.3" (but without the quote marks). The version must be a valid assembly version as defined by the attribute AssemblyVersion in the System.Reflection namespace.Default: nullCommand line option: /ver:version2.26 XmlDocumentationpublic bool XmlDocumentation { get; set; }This property controls whether XML documentation files are merged to produce an XML documentation file for the target assembly.Default: falseCommand line option: /xmldocs3 Command Line UsageThe full command line for ILMerge is:[,]]|v1|v1.1|v2|v4)[/useFullPublicKeyForReferences] [/zeroPeKind] [/wildcards] [/allowDup[:typename]]*[/allowDuplicateResources] [/union] [/align:n]/out:filename [...]">ilmerge [/lib:directory]* [/log[:filename]] [/keyfile:filename [/delaysign]] [/internalize[:filename]][/t[arget]:(library|exe|winexe)] [/closed] [/ndebug] [/ver:version] [/copyattrs [/allowMultiple]][/xmldocs] [/attr:filename] ([/targetplatform:[,]]|v1|v1.1|v2|v4)[/useFullPublicKeyForReferences] [/zeroPeKind] [/wildcards] [/allowDup[:typename]]*[/allowDuplicateResources] [/union] [/align:n]/out:filename [...]All options that take arguments can use either : or = as a separator. Options can be in any order, but all of the options must precede the list of input assemblies.4 Troubleshooting4.1 Input assembly not merged in correctlyA common problem is that after merging some assemblies, you get an error message stating that an input assembly was not merged in correctly because it is still listed as an external reference in the merged assembly. The most common cause of this problem is that one of the input assemblies, B, has an external reference to the incorrectly merged assembly, A, and also an external reference to another assembly, C, that itself has an external reference to A. Suppose the reference to C is to a method that takes an argument whose type is defined in A. Then the type signature of the method call to the method in C still refers to the type from A even in the merged assembly. After all, ILMerge cannot go and modify the assembly C so that it now depends on the type as it is defined in theILMerge: Getting Started, Merging, and Alternatives (to ILMerge).
On the networkIf you want to start windows service as a local system account, then the local system account must have printer rights.NOTE: Following instruction were found at set up printers for the SYSTEM account, perform the following:This method requires you to modify the registry using the Registry Editor.WARNING: Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious, system-wide problems that may require you to reinstall Windows to correct them. Microsoft cannot guarantee that any problems resulting from the use of Registry Editor can be solved.Use this tool at your own risk.Ensure that the user you are currently logged into on the server has the desired printers installed.Launch the Registry Editor (Regedit.exe).Select the following key:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\DevicesFrom the Registry menu, click Export Registry File.In the File Name text box, type c:\Devices.reg.Select the following key:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\PrinterPortsFrom the Registry menu, click Export Registry File.In the File Name text box, type c:\PrinterPorts.reg.Select the following key:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\WindowsFrom the Registry menu, click Export Registry File.In the File Name text box, type c:\Windows.reg.From the Start button, select Run. Open Devices.reg in Notepad by typing Notepad Devices.reg in Run dialog box.Replace the text HKEY_CURRENT_USER with HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULTSave the file. Then import it into the registry by double-clicking the file in Windows Explorer.Repeat steps are done for Devices.reg for PrinterPorts.reg and Windows.reg.These steps only work for local printers.If you are using PrintWithAdobe method, please also read Can PdfPrint use Adobe for silent printing? You can find code samples with a Visual Studio solution file in PdfPrinting.zip located at the downloads page.There is a code for our PdfPrintLibraryTest demo application.In that code, you can see:How to set all available properties in PdfPrint library (PaperSource, Collate, Copies, Pages, Duplex, Print in Color, Print range, Scale document, Landscape / Portrait, Printer Resolution, Paper Size, Show Printer dialog)How to change default printer in C# and get default values for the default printerHow to get a list of available printersHow to set watermarkIn our PdfPrintLibraryMultiDocumentPrintTest application, you can see how to execute print multiple PDF documents as one single print job. No, it won't work. Executing ilmerge to merge pdfprint dll with another executable will not give you an error, but still it won't work. PdfPrint dll is standalone and must stay like that - located in the same folder as the executable which uses pdf print library. PdfPrintingNet.dll is a standalone dll library. It is signed with the public key. It could be. Total downloads of packages. ILMerge ILMerge is a utility that can be used to merge multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. ILMerge takes a set of inputILMerge/README.md at master dotnet/ILMerge - GitHub
Assembly level attributes of each input assembly are copied over into the target assembly. Any duplicate attribute overwrites a previously copied attribute. If you want to allow duplicates (for those attributes whose type specifies "AllowMultiple" in their definition), then you can also set the AllowMultipleAssemblyLevelAttributes (Section 2.2). The input assemblies are processed in the order they are specified. This option is mutually exclusive with specifying an attribute assembly, i.e., the property AttributeFile (Section 2.5). When an attribute assembly is specified, then no assembly-level attributes are copied over from the input assemblies.Default: falseCommand line option: /copyattrs2.8 DebugInfopublic bool DebugInfo { get; set; }When this is set to true, ILMerge creates a .pdb file for the output assembly and merges into it any .pdb files found for input assemblies. If you do not want a .pdb file created for the output assembly, either set this property to false or else specify the /ndebug option at the command line.Default: trueCommand line option: /ndebug2.9 DelaySignpublic bool DelaySign { get; set; }When this is set before calling Merge, then the target assembly will be delay signed. This can be set only in conjunction with the /keyfile option (Section 2.13).Default: false2.10 ExcludeFilepublic string ExcludeFile { get; set; }This property is used only in conjunction with the Internalize property (Section 2.12). When this is set before calling Merge, it indicates the path and filename that will be used to identify types that are not to have their visibility modified. If Internalize is true, but ExcludeFile is "", then all types in any assembly other than the primary assembly are made non-public. Setting this property implicitly sets Internalize to true.The contents of the file should be one regular expression per line. The syntax is that defined in the .NET namespace System.Text.RegularExpressions for regular expressions. The regular expressions are matched against each type's full name, e.g., "System.Collections.IList". If the match fails, it is tried again with the assembly name (surrounded by square brackets) prepended to the type name. Thus, the pattern "\[A\].\*" excludes all types in assembly A from being made non-public. (The backslashes are required because the string is treated as a regular expression.) The pattern "N.T" will match all types named T in the namespace named N no matter what assembly they are defined in.It is important to note that the regular expressions are not anchored to the beginning of the string; if this is desired, use the appropriate regular expression operator characters to do so.Default: ""Command line option: /internalize[:excludeFile]2.11 FileAlignmentpublic int FileAlignment { get; set; }This controls the file alignment used for the target assembly. The setter sets the value to the largest power of two that is no larger than the supplied argument, and is at least 512.Default: 512Command line option: /align:n2.12 Internalizepublic bool Internalize { get; set; }This controls whether types in assemblies other than the primary assembly have their visibility modified. When it is true, then all non-exempt types that are visible outside of their assembly have their visibility modified so that theyComments
Kandi X-RAY | ILMerge Summarykandi X-RAY | ILMerge SummaryILMerge is a C# library typically used in Editor, Code Editor, Unity applications. ILMerge has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has medium support. You can download it from GitHub. ILMerge is a utility that merges multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. It is freely available for use and is available as a NuGet package. If you have any problems using it, please get in touch. (mbarnett at microsoft dot com). But first try reading the documentation. ILMerge takes a set of input assemblies and merges them into one target assembly. The first assembly in the list of input assemblies is the primary assembly. When the primary assembly is an executable, then the target assembly is created as an executable with the same entry point as the primary assembly. Also, if the primary assembly has a strong name, and a .snk file is provided, then the target assembly is re-signed with the specified key so that it also has a strong name. ILMerge is packaged as a console application. But all of its functionality is also available programmatically. There are several options that control the behavior of ILMerge. See the documentation that comes with the tool for details. The current version is 3.0.29 (released on 10 April 2019). NOTE: There is no longer a version of ILMerge that runs in the v1.1 runtime. ILMerge runs in the v4.0 .NET Runtime, but it is also able to merge assemblies from other framework versions using the /targetplatformoption. Please see the documentation. (However, it can merge PDB files only for v2 (and later) assemblies.). Currently, ILMerge works only on Windows-based platforms. It does not yet support Rotor or Mono. If you use ASP.NET v2.0, then it provides a tool (based on ILMerge) to combine assemblies created during precompilation. You can get more details from the ASP.NET web site. SupportILMerge has a medium active ecosystem. It has 1121 star(s) with 151 fork(s). There are 110 watchers for this library. It had no major release in the last 6
2025-04-10Months.There are 51 open issues and 23 have been closed. On average issues are closed in 225 days. There are 1 open pull requests and 0 closed requests. It has a neutral sentiment in the developer community.The latest version of ILMerge is current. QualityILMerge has 0 bugs and 0 code smells. SecurityILMerge has no vulnerabilities reported, and its dependent libraries have no vulnerabilities reported. ILMerge code analysis shows 0 unresolved vulnerabilities. There are 0 security hotspots that need review. LicenseILMerge is licensed under the MIT License. This license is Permissive.Permissive licenses have the least restrictions, and you can use them in most projects. ReuseILMerge releases are not available. You will need to build from source code and install.Installation instructions, examples and code snippets are available. Top functions reviewed by kandi - BETA kandi's functional review helps you automatically verify the functionalities of the libraries and avoid rework.Currently covering the most popular Java, JavaScript and Python libraries. See a Sample of ILMergeGet all kandi verified functions for this library. ILMerge Key FeaturesNo Key Features are available at this moment for ILMerge. ILMerge Examples and Code SnippetsNo Code Snippets are available at this moment for ILMerge.VulnerabilitiesNo vulnerabilities reportedInstall ILMergeAs noted on the ilmerge NuGet page, the package can be installed from the Visual Studio environment. Expand the project container in the Solution Explorer view. Right click on references and select Manage NuGet Packages. Ensure the Package source is set to nuget.org. Next, click on Tools - NuGet Package Manager - Package Manager Console. Ensure the Package source is also set to nuget.org. SupportFor any new features, suggestions and bugs create an issue on GitHub. If you have any questions check and ask questions on community page Stack Overflow .Find more information at:Find, review, and download reusable Libraries, Code Snippets, Cloud APIs from over 650 million Knowledge ItemsFind more libraries
2025-03-27Michael BarnettResearch in Software Engineering (RiSE)Microsoft ResearchCopyright © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.1. IntroductionThis document describes the ILMerge utility which merges multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. However, some .NET assemblies may not be able to be merged because they may contain features such as unmanaged code. I would highly recommend using peverify (the .NET Framework SDK tool) on the output of ILMerge to guarantee that the output is verifiable and will load in the .NET runtime.ILMerge is packaged as a console application. But all of its functionality is also accessible programmatically. Note that Visual Studio does allow one to add an executable as a reference, so you can write a client that uses ILMerge as a library.ILMerge takes a set of input assemblies and merges them into one target assembly. The first assembly in the list of input assemblies is the primary assembly. When the primary assembly is an executable, then the target assembly is created as an executable with the same entry point as the primary assembly. Also, if the primary assembly has a strong name, and a .snk file is provided, then the target assembly is re-signed with the specified key so that it also has a strong name.Note that anything that depended upon any of the names of the input assemblies, e.g., configuration files, must be updated to refer instead to the name of the target assembly.Any Win32 Resources in the primary assembly are copied over into the target assembly.There are many options that control the behavior of ILMerge. These are described in the next section.2. Public InterfaceThe public interface for ILMerge is defined in the ILMerging namespace as the class ILMerge.namespace ILMerging{ public class ILMerge { }}To use this class programmatically, just create an instance using the default (nullary) constructor. There are several properties and methods which are used to affect the behavior of the merging. The method Merge() is called to actually perform the merging.2.1 AllowDuplicateTypepublic void AllowDuplicateType(string typeName);The normal behavior of ILMerge is to not allow there to be more than one public type with the same name. If such a duplicate is found, then an exception is thrown. However, ILMerge can just rename the type so that it no longer causes a conflict. For private types, this is not a problem since no outside client can see it anyway, so ILMerge just does the renaming by default. For public types, it is not often a useful feature to have it renamed. However, there are situations where it is needed. In particular, for obfuscated assemblies, it seems that the obfuscator defines an attribute and creates an assembly-level attribute for the obfuscated assembly using that attribute. This would mean that obfuscated assemblies cannot be merged.So this option allows the user to either allow all public types to be renamed when they are duplicates, or to specify it for arbitrary type names. On the command line, there can be as many options as desired, if followed by a colon and a type name, otherwise
2025-04-05Output assembly after it has been merged!The solution is to use the closed option (Section 2.6) to have ILMerge compute the transitive closure of the input assemblies to prevent this kind of "dangling reference". In the example, that would result in all three assemblies A, B, and C, being merged. There is no way to merge just A and B without there still being an external reference to A.4.2 Merged assembly causes a runtime error (not present in the unmerged assemblies)The most frequent cause of problems when executing the target assembly is that ILMerge has no way to merge resources. Therefore resources are just copied over from the input assemblies into the target assembly. If these resources encode references to types defined in the input assemblies, then at runtime your program may fail because the type returned from the resource does not match the type as it is defined in the target assembly. You may even see a message that "type 'T' cannot be converted to type 'T'". This looks confusing because the messages do not show the assembly that each type is defined in. The actual error is that one type is defined in the input assembly while the other is defined in the target assembly.I do not know of any way to have ILMerge do the right thing in such cases. There is no general way to decode resources and change any type references they contain.5 DependenciesILMerge is a stand-alone assembly dependent only on the v4.0 .NET Framework. (It actually uses two other assemblies: the assembly that makes up CCI itself, System.Compiler.dll, and AssemblyResolver.dll, which provides a small component for finding and loading assemblies when requested by the CCI Reader. But those assemblies have been merged into ILMerge using ILMerge before it is distributed.)6 AcknowledgementsWithout Herman Venter, this tool could not have been written. Not only because it completely depends on CCI to provide the underlying functionality for reading, transforming, and writing IL, but because of all of his help and support.
2025-04-16Item in the file system.You can choose to minify your JavaScript and CSS web resources when published to your organization. This reduces the file size and thus speeds up the web page wherever the file is being reference.If your web resources are minified, you can optionally choose to 'Pretty Format' the file when downloaded from your organization into your Visual Studio project.PluginsBuild, update and publish your plugin assembly to Dynamics 365 with the click of a button.Use ILMerge as part of the build/publish process. You can easily setup your project to use ILMerge during the publishing process to Dynamics 365, with an intuitive GUI.Intuitive wizard for creating new plugins or custom workflows. This includes functionality for creating an early bound/proxy class at the same time. This process also generates the plugin configuration allowing you to register the plugin and any images with the click of a button.Templates for plugins and custom workflows that use a 'LocalContext' to provide easy access to the following: ITracingService, IOrganizationContext, Pre and Post images, and the target entity or entity reference.Plugin Registration Tool. Similar to the one provided in the Microsoft NuGet package but with the following enhancements:Configure everything without registering the actual records. This allows for setting everything up first and then registering with the click of a button. When you 'Un-register' an item, the configuration is left in-tact so that if you need to re-register it, you can do so with the click of a button.Ability to register multiple steps at the same
2025-04-14This can occur when an .snk file is not specified, or if something goes wrong trying to read its contents.2.23 TargetKindpublic ILMerge.Kind { get; set; }This controls whether the target assembly is created as a library, a console application or as a Windows application. When it is not specified, then the target assembly will be the same kind as that of the primary assembly. (In that case, the file extensions found on the specified target assembly and the primary assembly must match.) When it is specified, then the file extension of the target assembly must match the specification.The possible values are ILMerge.Kind.{Dll, Exe, WinExe}Default: ILMerge.Kind.SameAsPrimaryAssemblyCommand line option: /target:(library|exe|winexe)2.24 UnionMergepublic bool { get; set; }When this is true, then types with the same name are all merged into a single type in the target assembly. The single type is the union of all of the individual types in the input assemblies: it contains all of the members from each of the corresponding types in the input assemblies. It cannot be specified at the same time as /allowDup.Default: falseCommand line option: /union2.25 Versionpublic System.Version Version { get; set; }When this has a non-null value, then the target assembly will be given its value as the version number of the assembly. When specified on the command line, the version is read in as a string and should look like "6.2.1.3" (but without the quote marks). The version must be a valid assembly version as defined by the attribute AssemblyVersion in the System.Reflection namespace.Default: nullCommand line option: /ver:version2.26 XmlDocumentationpublic bool XmlDocumentation { get; set; }This property controls whether XML documentation files are merged to produce an XML documentation file for the target assembly.Default: falseCommand line option: /xmldocs3 Command Line UsageThe full command line for ILMerge is:[,]]|v1|v1.1|v2|v4)[/useFullPublicKeyForReferences] [/zeroPeKind] [/wildcards] [/allowDup[:typename]]*[/allowDuplicateResources] [/union] [/align:n]/out:filename [...]">ilmerge [/lib:directory]* [/log[:filename]] [/keyfile:filename [/delaysign]] [/internalize[:filename]][/t[arget]:(library|exe|winexe)] [/closed] [/ndebug] [/ver:version] [/copyattrs [/allowMultiple]][/xmldocs] [/attr:filename] ([/targetplatform:[,]]|v1|v1.1|v2|v4)[/useFullPublicKeyForReferences] [/zeroPeKind] [/wildcards] [/allowDup[:typename]]*[/allowDuplicateResources] [/union] [/align:n]/out:filename [...]All options that take arguments can use either : or = as a separator. Options can be in any order, but all of the options must precede the list of input assemblies.4 Troubleshooting4.1 Input assembly not merged in correctlyA common problem is that after merging some assemblies, you get an error message stating that an input assembly was not merged in correctly because it is still listed as an external reference in the merged assembly. The most common cause of this problem is that one of the input assemblies, B, has an external reference to the incorrectly merged assembly, A, and also an external reference to another assembly, C, that itself has an external reference to A. Suppose the reference to C is to a method that takes an argument whose type is defined in A. Then the type signature of the method call to the method in C still refers to the type from A even in the merged assembly. After all, ILMerge cannot go and modify the assembly C so that it now depends on the type as it is defined in the
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