SO I got dragged into creating this windwos forms app.... I am used to web apps so maybe this a dumb question but....

So my windows app refrences a few dll's my generated classes and teh SD DLL's. Is there a way to package all of teh DLL's into the same exe?

Not an installer exe...but an executable that runs my app? it makes it much easier to give to someeone...ya knwo here run this exe not take this zip file unzip and run this exe in the new folder.

Thanks Bert

No, sorry... You have to give that person a .zip. You can of course create a .exe with winzip, which is what a lot of people are use to.

I hear ya. I used to build Delphi apps, where everything builds into a single .exe, you hand that out and you're done. It was sweet.

I can't tell you how many times I've distributed a 'quick' app into a .zip file, emailed it around, and had people call saying 'it doesn't find filexyz.dll'. The user will open the zip out of the email, find the .exe in the zip, run that, without saving the contents of the .zip into a folder. If you go the .zip file route, be sure to tell them, 'unzip the contents into a folder, you moron.'

thats what I figured but hey doesnt hurt to ask.

Thanks guys Bert