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Gilma - GUI for the ILMerge Application Revised for .NET 2.0

By tuscano

An article on a GUI to Microsoft ILMerge Program
C# 2.0, Windows, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0VS2005, Dev
Posted:27 Feb 2007
Updated:23 Apr 2007
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Introduction

I saw the beautiful interface made by Tomer Shalev on the SourceForce Web site and thought I could rewrite it in a self-contained way. The original Tomer Shalev's Gilma is a front-end application to ILMerge: Microsoft's command-line utility that can be used to merge multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. ILMerge is freely available from Microsoft's Web site.
ILMerge's license does allow commercial usage.
In my implementation, the snapshot of which you can see in the image above, I have referenced the ILMerge executable directly in Visual Studio 2005.

Using the Code

The MSI file contained in the demo installs the application. .NET 2.0 and the 3.1 Installers are pre-requisites. In the source zip, the entire Visual Studio 2005 project is contained.
The only thing to point out is the presence of the possibility to use a strong key in the preferred *.snk format to digitally sign the assembly.

Points of Interest

  • The implementation is fairly trivial. The code is derived from the ILMerging interface help found on the Microsoft Web site.
  • Added support for file names Drag and Drop as suggested.

History

  • Updated to contain the ZeroPeKind option checkbox
  • This is version 2.0. considering 1.0 the version for .NET 1.1 in the Tomer Shalev SourceForce site (Added Drag and Drop Support for file names)

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

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GeneralQuestion about errors PinmemberCodeMasterMike21:20 24 Feb '09  
GeneralVS2008 Add_In Pinmembertuscano4:17 20 Nov '08  
GeneralYou know what would be really nice... Pinmemberchaiguy133714:15 14 Nov '08  
GeneralAha! Pinmemberchaiguy133716:08 14 Nov '08  
GeneralSaving/Loading Configuration does not work Pinmembermasschel2:27 12 Nov '08  
GeneralRe: Saving/Loading Configuration does not work Pinmembermasschel2:29 12 Nov '08  
GeneralVery nice work!! Pinmembersykiemikey7:37 30 Aug '07  
QuestionMerge it with the sourceforge project! PinmemberSimone Busoli3:20 1 May '07  
GeneralScreenShot Pinmembernorm .net0:35 23 Apr '07  
General/zeroPeKind Pinmembernjdnjdnjdnjdnjd12:40 22 Apr '07  
GeneralRe: /zeroPeKind Pinmembertuscano0:19 23 Apr '07  
GeneralFound a bug Pinmembermrhaze22:19 10 Apr '07  
GeneralRe: Found a bug Pinmemberteejayem10:26 1 May '07  
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GeneralRe: Also see... PinmemberOleg Shilo12:39 27 Feb '07  
GeneralRe: Also see... Pinmembercarbonbaseone12:48 27 Feb '07  
GeneralRe: Also see... Pinmembertuscano22:21 27 Feb '07  
GeneralRe: Also see... Pinmembercarbonbaseone7:38 7 Mar '07  
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