Using ILMerge to merge Aspose.Cells in .NET

Aspose.Cells Product Family
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Trying use ILMerge to merge Aspose.Cells.dll into a single executable.

It was working with the previous Aspose.Cells DLL version.

Just upgraded to the latest version. Now I find the code...

Aspose.Cells.License license = new License();
license.SetLicense("Aspose.Cells.lic");

throws an exception, with the message

Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: key

Any suggestions how to fix this.?

2

Hi,

Thanks for your posting and using Aspose.Cells for .NET.

We have lately released a newer version. Please download and try the latest version:

Aspose.Cells for .NET 7.1.1
and let us know your feedback.

3

Downloaded Aspose.Cells 7.1.1 …

Still throws exception from ILMerged executable when attempting to set the licence.

Any suggestions appreciated.

4

For information:-
ILMerge verbose output lists…

Merging assembly ‘Aspose.Cells’ into target assembly.
Assembly level attribute ‘System.Security.AllowPartialTrustedCallerAttribute’ from assembly ‘Aspose.Cells’ being deleted from target assembly

No errors were reported by ILMerge.

5

Hi,

We have found your mentioned issue after closely checking it with ILMerge .

We will look into it.

6

Hi,


A ticket has been already logged with an id: CELLSNET-40390. for your issue into our issue tracking system (internal). Once we figure it out, we will provide the fix here.

Thank you.
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Hi,

We obfuscated Aspose.Cells by SmartAssembly.

We checked this
issue with SmartAssebmly and got the reply :

You can’t use ILMerge with a SmartAssembly protected assembly because the
renaming and other features break the Reflection ILMerge uses to work out its’
own renaming scheme.