Use ILMerge to bundle Newtonsoft.Json DLL with exe

Author: Vi014

RI Mod Manager.csproj

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <Project ToolsVersion="15.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
+  <Import Project="packages\ILMerge.3.0.41\build\ILMerge.props" Condition="Exists('packages\ILMerge.3.0.41\build\ILMerge.props')" />
   <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\$(MSBuildToolsVersion)\Microsoft.Common.props" Condition="Exists('$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\$(MSBuildToolsVersion)\Microsoft.Common.props')" />
   <PropertyGroup>
     <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
@@ -13,12 +14,14 @@
     <AutoGenerateBindingRedirects>true</AutoGenerateBindingRedirects>
     <Deterministic>true</Deterministic>
     <TargetFrameworkProfile />
+    <NuGetPackageImportStamp>
+    </NuGetPackageImportStamp>
   </PropertyGroup>
   <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
     <PlatformTarget>x86</PlatformTarget>
     <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
     <DebugType>full</DebugType>
-    <Optimize>false</Optimize>
+    <Optimize>true</Optimize>
     <OutputPath>bin\Debug\</OutputPath>
     <DefineConstants>DEBUG;TRACE</DefineConstants>
     <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
@@ -118,4 +121,13 @@
     <None Include="Resources\libcurl.dll" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
+  <Target Name="EnsureNuGetPackageBuildImports" BeforeTargets="PrepareForBuild">
+    <PropertyGroup>
+      <ErrorText>This project references NuGet package(s) that are missing on this computer. Use NuGet Package Restore to download them.  For more information, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=322105. The missing file is {0}.</ErrorText>
+    </PropertyGroup>
+    <Error Condition="!Exists('packages\ILMerge.3.0.41\build\ILMerge.props')" Text="$([System.String]::Format('$(ErrorText)', 'packages\ILMerge.3.0.41\build\ILMerge.props'))" />
+  </Target>
+  <PropertyGroup>
+    <PostBuildEvent>"$(SolutionDir)packages\ILMerge.3.0.41\tools\net452\ILMerge.exe" /out:"$(TargetDir)Merged.exe" "$(TargetPath)" "$(TargetDir)Newtonsoft.Json.dll"</PostBuildEvent>
+  </PropertyGroup>
 </Project>

packages.config

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <packages>
+  <package id="ILMerge" version="3.0.41" targetFramework="net472" />
   <package id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="13.0.3" targetFramework="net472" />
 </packages>

packages/ILMerge.3.0.41/.signature.p7s

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
+
+  <PropertyGroup>
+    <ILMergeConsolePath>$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\tools\net452\ILMerge.exe</ILMergeConsolePath>
+  </PropertyGroup>
+
+</Project>