Merging the telerik assemblies for deployment ( referenced assemblies embedded in EXE )

[Ramon]

Hi Am new at using Telerik for WPF, so i created a WPF Telerik solution in VS and included the GridView component then it referenced the 4 Telerik  DLL's. added the Grid to the Mainwindow.XAML build the solution and all is Good. The problem is the Compiler spits out a bunch of Folders(EN FR DE JA TR ES ETC...) with the .EXE and Also included the 4 Telerik DLL's. Is it possible to build the Application and produce only the .EXE with the assemblies embedded in it and no Folder's for all those nations.i tried many methods with no success EX.( ILMerge - SmartAssembly also tried to place dlls as resource did not work either) I dont know what am doing wrong the app works but how to merge all those Dll's in it? I search your forms most examples are for WinForms and no (Telerik.WinControls.RadTypeResolver.Instance.ResolveTypesInCurrentAssembly = true;) similar method for WPF. Thank you regards

[Vic]

Hello Ramon,

Did you receive any help with this?

Thanks,
Vic

[Fabien]

Hi,

merging of WPF controls is simply a nightmare.

First of all, I can propose you to try this scenarii:

- protect your assemblies : http://www.telerik.com/help/wpf/protecting-telerik-radcontrols-assembly.html
  (yeah I know, it's not a really good protection :s)
- Embed assemblies with tools like smartassembly, theses tools have their own assemblies resolvers and proxy. (don't use ressources compression and encryption)


ILMerge is not able to merge WPF assemblies. They contain resources with encoded assembly identities. ILMerge is unable to deserialize the resources, modify the assembly identities, and then re-serialize them.

Anyway, if you can't buy tools like SmartAssembly, you can try to make your own assembly resolver :
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2010/02/03/jeffrey-richter-excerpt-2-from-clr-via-c-third-edition.aspx

[Vlad]

Hi,

I've just posted a blog related to this. You can check it here:
http://blogs.telerik.com/vladimirenchev/posts/13-01-15/how-to-merge-assemblies-into-wpf-application

Regards,
Vlad
the Telerik team