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CNET's Matt Asay wrote "Open source and the future of vendor-free IT", in which he takes a contrary view to IDC's Matt Lawton (author of the gated ($4,500 gated at that) paper "2007 Industry Adoption of Open Source Software, Part 2: Project Adoption").

The key quote is this one, from the IDC paper:

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ILMerge for creating distribution DLLs.

ILMerge is a tool available for download at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=22914587-b4ad-4eae-87cf-b14ae6a939b0&displaylang=en

One use of the tool is described at http://jasonhaley.com/blog/archive/2007/04/05/138404.aspx
The basic sequence (as outlined in the article):

ILMerge WinJournal.exe WinJournal.Register.dll /out:WinJournal2.exe
(Any number of sources can be specified.)

ildasm WinJournal2.exe /source /out:WinJournal2.il
(This breaks the exe into IL code.)

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Opening CSV Files in .Net

One of the most common formats to get data exported from other systems in is the CSV (comma separated values) format. A good starting point for this pseudo standard is found here: Wikipedia on CSV. As this format is not published by any standards body, you may find some files are easier to open than others. However, most spreadsheets can open the format and massage the data as needed.

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