Embedding Telerik control assemblies

[Kalle]

Hi,

We have been developing a WPF dashboard application that uses extensions (class libraries) that use Telerik WPF controls like Charting.
Is it possible to somehow embed needed Telerik control assemblies to each extension DLL so that we would not have to add these control assemblies also to hosting application (dashboard)? We are using MEF and PRISM.

I've seen some information about setting "Embed interop" property to True on class libraries but I'm not sure if that would do the trick. We would like our Dashboard and its extensions to be as loosely coupled as possible.

One "solution" would be to copy all needed control DLLs to Dashboard's running directory but we would like our extensions to only have one class library.

Br,

Kalle

[Yana]

Hi Kalle,

I am afraid the "Embed Interop Types" setting cannot be used on the Telerik assemblies.

I would suggest that you check this blog post explaining how you could merge the assemblies. Basically in PRISM you can mark the Telerik dlls referenced in your modules with Copy Local to False - in this way they will not be copied to the output directory.  Then you can add all Telerik assemblies required by all RadControls in your application as embedded resources of your Shell project and use the steps described in the blog post.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Yana
Telerik