我是否需要为每个设备在应用程序中移动外部库

Question

In order to use an external library in my C# project we need to add it as an assembly reference in form of dll files as the pic below: but by this way, do I need to put the dll files along with my application in each machine I move my app? or they will be embedded in my application and so no need to always carry them ?

Answer 1

You can either copy references with the project, embed the libraries as resources , or use ILMerge to generate one large executable. However unless you have a STRONG reason to NOT copy the reference assemblies I would stick with the standard practice of copying the referenced assemblies. (wanting to have just one file for simplicity is not a strong reason to me).

Framework ( System.* ) libraries will be installed in the GAC on the target machine so you won't have to deploy them.

Any non-system libraries will either need to be installed in the GAC (ether by you or by a 3rd party installer for their libraries) or copied with the solution.

Answer 2

For that there's a property within your reference properties window called Copy Local . If this property is set to true, the reference is copied to the output path of the project at run time.