Embed an Assembly as a Resource

If your application uses another dependent assembly, you have to deploy this assembly also together with your application. In some cases however, you wish you could only deploy your application assembly – and nothing else. To achieve this, you could embed the dependent assembly as a resource into your application assembly.

Unfortunately, this is not the whole story. You also need some other things, which I will describe in the following. As an example, I will use the embedding of log4net.dll.

I assume you already have an application using log4net. If not, it is a good idea to first create the application with the complete functionality. Not before nearly the end, embed the dependent assembly.

Embed the Resource

The start is quite intuitive: add a folder Resources to your project, add the log4net.dll to this folder, and change its build action to Embedded Resource.

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