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copied!<p>There are a lot of little things I find myself re-writing here and there because they might be too large/complex to represent as a snippet, but realistically it doesn't make sense to make a stand-alone DLL out of it because we might only be talking a few dozen or a few hundred lines of code.</p> <p>For example a little form which contains only a text box where the user enters a password and closes on {Enter}.</p> <p>Or an extension method which can serialise/deserialise any object to/from a GZipped file assuming the object is marked as <code>Serializable</code>.</p> <p>The list goes on. I have accumulated lots of little bits and pieces over the years and it's not organised in any neat way.</p> <p>In C++ projects, I can write a lib file containing these bits of code which I can add to my compiler settings in such a way that any future C++ project I create has this lib included. I have done this with ATL and Boost.</p> <p>I don't know of a way to do this for C# projects. Is it possible?</p> <p><strong>Edit:</strong></p> <p>If I make an assembly, I have to compile it to a DLL and distribute the DLL alongside my main executable. The DLL may be small or it may be quite large, I don't know. But I may only need to use a few tiny functions in that DLL for my project. In C++, only the functions I use are statically linked when I use the library, however if I distribute my software with a DLL then I have to distribute everything.</p> <p>I know it is possible to merge the DLL with the main executable so that the user isn't aware that there is a separate library, however the whole DLL is still being packaged along with the executable.</p> <p>Imagine I write a DLL with lots of my own maths, stats, file IO, image manipulation, serialisation, user IO, etc included. Nothing fancy, just some common things I find myself doing quite frequently. The DLL might be, say, 4MB.</p> <p>Now I want to write a program which uses a tiny part of the DLL, and if I were to simply copy/paste the necessary code then my EXE would end up being, say, 700kB.</p> <p>Are you saying that I either copy/paste the code I need, or I have to distribute a 4MB DLL along with my 700kB EXE?</p>

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