What is Salamander .NET Linker and Mini-Deployment Tool?
Salamander .NET Linker and mini-deployment tool allows you to link .NET assemblies together into a single file, and to deploy your application without installation of the whole Microsoft .NET Framework. The linker links MSIL code on demand putting together only the required classes and methods, and it is capable of linking into the Microsoft .NET framework class libraries. The mini-deployment tool then builds a minimum set of the Microsoft .NET runtime to ship with your .NET programs. This usually results in installation file size of a few mega bytes, rather than tens of mega bytes, and the installation takes much less time without rebooting machines. Although the linking and mini-deployment are provided from the same command line utility, they are actually independent in the sense that you can use only the linking without using the mini-deployment, or use only the mini-deployment without any linking. The linking is usually performed before mini-deployment in order to shrink the whole
